Word: tom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Excessive Government regulations that have forced companies to spend cash not on new labor-saving and productive machines but on costly antipollution, safety and health equipment. Coal mining has been particularly hurt. Says Tom Duncan, head of the Kentucky Coal Association, a group of mine operators: "The man mining the coal is probably more productive than ever before, but now you've got one man carrying away possibly explosive coal dust, one or two men bolting roofs, one doing this thing and one doing that." In Kentucky, for example, productivity has dropped from 23.6 tons of coal mined...
...their territories and ignored their calls for conciliatory meetings. And finally, the other dons believed, he schemed to kill three of his rivals, Stefano Magaddino, Carlo Gambino and Thomas Lucchese. In his memoirs, however, Bonanno is all innocence. He was merely trying to talk to them. "Carl [Gambino] and Tom [Lucchese] ... [were] told that I was going to kill three -a dirty and desperate conspiracy...
After a sparkling indoor season, injuries devastated the spring version of men's track. The squad could not muster an impressive outdoor record because of a lack of depth. But the tracksters improved in every meet, particularly in the throwing events where Joe Pelligrini, Tom Lenz and Gary Quantock garnered many unexpected points...
...full shock of sandy gray hair, bushy eyebrows of a color that somebody with a window dresser's vocabulary once described as "ginger," and a face easefully lined, like the leather seats of an old Jaguar. Friends say that women tremble in his presence. E.P. Dutton Editor Tom Congdon describes an incident that occurred once when he was walking with Baker on Nantucket: a stunningly beautiful young woman on a bicycle asked for directions. "Russ ambled over to her and started to tell her, in his deep, soft voice, and I could see his effect on her. Her cheeks turned...
...Pittsburgh Pirates 15)Tony Oliva 16)Harvey Kuenn, Richie Allen and Tony Oliva 17)George Scott 18)Ted Williams 19)George Scott and Larry Hisle 20)Gil McDougald 21)Luis Aparicio 22)The San Francisco Giants with Orlando Cepeda in 1958 and Willie McCovey in 1959 23)Tom Seaver 24)Willie Mays 25)Larry Raines...