Word: tom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after all that, the New Yankees got into the World Series and seemed to say to themselves, "Well, we did it. Now let's settle down and play some ball." And they did; they stuffed the rah-rahs down Tom Lasorda's throat and, for a change, undisputedly...
...Even Sir Tom, the hero of the Mets, was forced to leave by the mean Earl of Grant. And the scribes wrote more about fighting and lazy players, and less about heroes, and good things, and sports...
After tying the score, Harvard appeared to relax and this cost them as Dartmouth moved ahead just two minutes later. Sweeper back Tom Sylvester tapped the ball too softly on a pass back to Wein-furtner and Dartmouth forward Baynoe capitalized, darting in to lift the ball over the diving goalie...
...Tom Moore and Paul White--Dunster Library...
...Fast today sounds philosophical almost to the point of complacency, the story of his own life and the stories of many of his books' heroes have been tales of fighters. Lavette's response to any problem is to charge headlong into it. In Fast's fictionalized biography Citizen Tom Paine (1943), Thomas Paine continues to work for the Revolution after putting out his pamphlet Common Sense, and he dies friendless after he goes on to criticize the new government his efforts have helped to establish. The American (1946) is a fictionalized biography of John P. Altgeld, a poor Illinois farm...