Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...likened him to Hitler.) In an effort to inject some commotion, both parties revived the old-time torchlight procession. Harry Truman began the week with a monster rally in Chicago, where Boss Jake Arvey's minions kindled enough flame and fireworks to burn down the whole town. Tom Dewey, after another dash through the Midwest, would conclude his campaign at a Madison Square Garden rally which would be heralded by the red flares of a Manhattan parade...
...what kind of an American? Said Tom Dewey (whose campaign, while dull by previous standards, perhaps caught the spirit of the times better than most people yet realized): "I assert that human beings are not identical-that no human being is common-that we are all-every single one of us-uncommon people. We are separate individuals whose human differences in talent, in religious faith, in purpose and achievement, enrich our communities and are to be gloried...
...Harvard was ready to take sides came shortly before the election of 1800. The Hasty Pudding Club, which then represented the College's view fairly accurately, made a declaration of policy. "Three cheers" for Washington, it said, and "three more" for John Adams, 1755, but as for Republican-Democrat Tom Jefferson, "May he exercise his elegant literary talents for the benefit of the world in some retreat, secure from the troubles and dangers of political life." When his campaign brought Jefferson to Harvard he was booed, and the College showed that it hugged warmly the Federalist philosophy of New England...
They will be bumping shoulders with 230-pound Tom Donnalley and 254-pound Tony Palmer, says the program...
Elsewhere along its line, the Purple has average-size football players. There is Jim Dieckleman, a 5-foot-9, 192-pound end who starred in the 1945 Holy Cross-Boston College game, and won the Edward O'Melia trophy for his performance. The other end is Tom Kelleher who shines on defense and specializes in circus catches of the forward pass...