Word: thundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being able to test himself, master a new skill. He flew in Navy jets before making Top Gun. He played serious pool for eight weeks before The Color of Money. For Cocktail he tended bar in Manhattan. He plays a race-car driver in his next movie, Days of Thunder, a spin-off from Cruise's latest perilous hobby. But for Born on the Fourth of July he faced a different challenge: spending almost a year sporadically in a wheelchair, as Ron Kovic...
Rogers has been with Cruise in Charlotte on the speedway set of Days of Thunder. She is there as Tom Terrific, his solid frame wrapped in a white racing suit with black and red stripes, steps into the chartreuse-and-yellow Lumina. He carries his celebrity gracefully, as if he knows he'll have it for a long time. "I'm just happier now than I've ever been in my life," he says softly. On the fast track of responsible stardom, he just keeps cruising along...
...order of things, the feudal inevitabilities, can be changed, with endurance. The Old South was always saying No! in thunder, and Virginia had a gift of eloquent defiance. In 1959, rather than submit to federal court orders to merge their two public school systems (black and white), the supervisors of Prince Edward County closed them down, and then kept them closed for five years. It was an extension of "massive resistance," the last stand of states' rights. The position was argued in high legalisms. But in deeper truth, Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. and other leaders of white Virginia were...
...Name P Cl Hometown 1 Michael Francis G JR Braintree, MA 3 Brian Popiel D SR Thunder Bay, ONT 5 Kevan Melrose D SR Red Deer, ALB 6 Ted Donato F JR Dedham, MA 7 Rich DeFreitas D SO Manchester, NH 9 Matt Mallgrave F FR Silver Spring, MD 11 John Weisbrod F JR Woodbury, NY 12 Steven Flomenhoft F FR Riverwoods, IL 14 C.J. Young F SR Waban, MA 17 Peter Ciavaglia F JR Buffalo, NY 18 Ted Drury F FR Trumbull, CT 19 Tim Burke F SO Wellesley, MA 21 Kevin Sneddon D SO Burlington, ONT 22 Brian...
After graduating from Harvard, White went to cover the war in China for Time magazine and other publications. From his years in China he produced the controversial book, Thunder Out of China, on the Chinese Nationalist government...