Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are not three Jarndyces left upon the. earth perhaps since old Tom Jarndyce in despair blew his brains out at a coffee-house in Chancery Lane; but Jarndyce and Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the court...
...trading deadline neared, Seaver had second thoughts and appealed to Mets President Lorinda de Roulet. daughter of the late Joan Whitney Payson, the club's founder. "Tom had at least four conversations with Mother," said Whitney de Roulet, 23, a Mets public relations aide. "I felt that the talks were working out well and that Tom would remain with us." Indeed, Seaver left the dugout the night before he was traded to confer by telephone with Mrs. De Roulet. An agreement was apparently worked out. But next day, Seaver heard about a story by New York News Sports Columnist...
...Died. Tom Campbell Clark, 77, former Supreme Court Justice (1949-1967); of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. The genial, Texas-born Clark came to Washington in 1937 and rose quickly in the Department of Justice, where he prosecuted war fraud cases. A close associate of Senator Harry Truman, he was appointed Attorney General when Truman became President, and an Associate Justice four years later. Clark initially aroused Truman's ire by joining the court's conservative wing, but gradually moved leftward as a member of the Warren Court. He wrote several far-reaching liberal opinions, including...
...Braun's readiness to work for a new master and single-minded dedication to rocketry won him some critics. Satirist Tom Lehrer skewered Von Braun in a mocking song (Sample verse: "Once the rockets are up/ Who cares where they come down/ That's not my department/ Says Wernher von Braun"). Even some Von Braun admirers admitted that their hero was not always easy to like...
...harrowing four concluding holes after learning of the possible assassination attempt. After a relatively nondescript front nine in which he birdied the third and fourth holes but bogeyed the ninth with a wayward chip, he buckled down to withstand the onslaughts on par by Graham and third-place finisher Tom Weiskopf...