Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard could only retaliate by clanging the far goalpost, and the third period exchange--Tom McCarthy's stuff shot for P.C. and Mark Fusco's screener for Harvard--just filled out the scorecard...
Carrington is impatient with pomposity or snobbery. His sharp wit is tempered by a self-deprecating humor that allows him to make light of his 183-year-old title. "My name is Smith," he jokes; his family tree traces back to a banker named Tom Smith. The family seat is the Manor House, set in 800 acres near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire; there Carrington indulges his passion for farming and landscape gardening...
...crop, flower resists frost, has a short growing season, and is less affected by drought than wheat. It also has some drawbacks. Says Farmer Tom Sinner, of Casselton, N. Dak.: "You plant flower because it brings a better return than other crops, but weeds and insects just love it." Agronomists fear that repeated plantings of flower on the same stretch of soil will so infest it with insects and diseases that it will become unusable for that crop...
There were a few initial victories, but the mounted, mobile Boers with their magazine-loading Mausers and their devastating "Long Tom" artillery soon drove the British forces into siege positions at Ladysmith, Kimberley and Mafeking. The lessons of preparedness were not lost on one of the Boers' early captives: young War Correspondent Winston Churchill...
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