Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dwight Button, chairman of the Fourth National Bank, boasts that he has hired two senior officers away from Houston banks. Iowa-born Richard Upton, who runs the hyperactive Chamber of Commerce, points to Metropolitan Life, NCR and many other big companies that have opened branches in the area. Tom Pierce, Wichita's AFL-CIO chief, notes that despite its right-to-work law, Kansas' average hourly wage is fairly high ($6.11). Says Pierce: "If workers come here and stay for two or three months, you would have a tough time getting them to move...
...N.F.L. picked the very best players in the land and sequestered them for training in Palm Beach. Coach Tom Landry, chosen by the National Security Council, was so up for the game that he bought himself another of those little fedoras that make him look like a homicide detective, wise and tough. "The Soviets aren't ten feet tall," he said...
...only were they wearing those floppy leather helmets, but their kidney pads stuck up out of their Commie-red pants. No one had told them about huddles. The quarterback tried to draw his plays on the artificial turf with his finger. A wintry smile creased the face of Tom Landry...
...Harvard (Ron Raikula, Tom Royal, Jack Gauthier, Malcolm Cooper...
...sophomore line of Bob McDonald, Tom Murray and converted rear-guard Graham Carter sparked the icemen with buzzsaw forechecking and picturesque plays. Murray notched a hat trick with a goal in each stanza...