Word: thomson
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Prose-Colored Glosses. In between such revisionist histories, Nice Guys Finish Last provides a series of fascinating and hilarious reminiscences, ranging from his locker-room wrangle with Babe Ruth to Bobby Thomson's shot heard round the world. But essentially the book is a series of prose-colored glosses aimed for fans rather than readers...
Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government, has decided to revise a paper he co-authored that called for more authoritarianism in democratic governments and provoked "sharp debate" among the members of the private commission that had ordered it, the director of the commission said yesterday...
...year seats have been filled with losers. The President appointed one: former Missouri Congressman Tom Curtis, 63, who lost his Senate race against Tom Eagleton. Two others were named by House party leaders: Rhode Island Democrat Robert Tiernan, 46, and Wisconsin Republican Vernon Thomson...
Such a shift to political struggle was in the interest of the PRG partly because it would have meant that refugees driven into Vietnam's cities when American planes bombed their villages--the effect that Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government, described as "forced-draft urbanization"--could return to the countryside. In the countryside, they were beyond the reach of the Saigon government's police, and besides, Vietnam's peasants had always been the NLF's main social base--that was why forced-draft urbanization was such an effective strategy. Though military tactics were the only ones by which...
...situation remains as fluid as ever. Durkin has petitioned the U.S. Senate to review the contested ballots. Wyman has requested that the state's courts call a new election. What is more, Republican Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. has asked the legislature to schedule an election...