Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could continue out loud once he reached the bottom of a page. Certainly, Darwin would have ascribed to the Duke of Wellington's statement that "the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton," for he considered the English public school, as epitomized in Tom Brown's Schooldays, to be the great builder of the moral...
...other double qualifiers were Paul Steck of Cornell, who placed second in the one-meter and fourth in the three-meter, and Tom Fatyol of Pittsburgh, who finished third in both events...
...TEACH BY LEARNING: WILLIAM KENNETH JONES, 46, of Columbia. Studied at Columbia and Columbia Law. Clerked for Justice Tom C. Clark. Briefly practiced private law in Cleveland. Married; three children...
...effectively keeping its secret, others who might be interested in leaking the story include Palestinian rebels, the Israelis, a disaffected official in the American or Jordanian governments, or the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, whose objection to the subsidy was overruled by Ford. Of course there are those like Columnist Tom Wicker who think that most secrets are dirty. Or those who think disclosure did no real harm, like Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, who wonders "how good the Brave Little King's intelligence is, anyway. And with that $210 million in aid he gets from us, why does he need...
...editors feel burned by what they regard as odious past attempts to muzzle them in the name of national security. "Once something leaks out, it's open season," says Editor Tom Winship of the Boston Globe. "I always regret it when we've played games. I got my head clear on the Pentagon papers." Over at the New York Times, the Bay of Pigs lesson was well learned. At President Kennedy's personal request, the Times did not print what it knew in advance of the invasion, only to be told afterward by a rueful Kennedy that had the story...