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Word: tomming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this newly unrebellious mood, the Democratic caucus readily re-elected its party leaders O'Neill, Wright and Tom Foley, chairman of the caucus. Those leaders appreciatively took this as a refreshing vote of confidence. The caucus also beat back efforts by some of the older reformist firebrands to slash the remaining powers of committee chairmen even further. There was remarkably little resistance when O'Neill asked that the one sensitive issue facing the caucus be debated and decided in private, rather than with reporters present. It was the question of what to do about four members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: They're Not Bomb Throwers | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...International Fiscal Association spent $20,000 to hire Soprano Leontyne Price, Conductor Arthur Fiedler and the National Symphony Orchestra for the final evening's entertainment. The Hyatt Hotels Corp. offers ten "theme packages" for the concluding blowout, including Monte Carlo night, rodeo parties, an Arabian Nights banquet and a Tom Jones party, in which the ballroom is filled with trees, grass, live pigs, chickens, llamas and a tame tiger, while guests gnaw on turkey drumsticks and slurp wine out of goatskin bags. One group had an Arabian Nights party for its mostly male membership and held an auction of comely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Convening of America | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...Gridley, Calif., turned to farming after raising a family and has just produced the largest crop yield of kiwi fruit in the state's history-15 tons per acre. She markets them at $2 per lb. to the Japanese, who consider the fuzzy fruit a rare delicacy. Tom O'Toole, a Detroit tinkerer, has invented a single-cup coffee brewer that he has begun to market to the Japanese. Next he will send them his production molds, which are priced at $90,000 and produce up to 15,000 brewers a day. Tolona Pizza Products of Chicago sells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Offbeat Exports | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...Cochrane (Watson), 10:28; UVM--Gary Prior (Craig Homola, Louis Cote), 14:35. Second Period: UVM--Prior (Cote, Chris Zimmerman), 4:23; UVM--Zimmerman (Homola, Mark Brown), 14:03; UVM--Jim Duffy (unassisted), 17:05; H--Jack Hughes (Mitch Olson, G. Hughes), 18:11. Third Period: UVM--Tom Cullity (Zimmerman, Cote), 1:42; UVM--Brown (Jim Murphy, Mike Vincent), 8:26; H--Scott Powers (Jim Trainor, John Dunderdale), 9:24; UVM--Zimmerman (empty net goal...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Vermont Freezes Icemen, 7-4 Crimson Record Now at 3-5 | 12/15/1978 | See Source »

...first half, Harvard's tart passing produced a slew of layups underneath. Center Dave Coatsworth labored under the glass for 11 points while guard Tom Mannix rippled four jumpers from the corner, which is the A-1 shooting position for the hot-handed sophomore. The cagers were ahead by 42-32 toward the end of the half and the gap would have been bigger if not for the 27 turnovers Harvard committed during the course of the evening...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Wagner Downs Cagers, 82-73 | 12/15/1978 | See Source »

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