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Word: tomming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years for manslaughter-he killed a man in an unscheduled barroom brawl over a pool game-Slaymaker kisses his friend McDoniels on the cheek before helping him into the ring. To no avail. A minute into the first round, the wild-swinging, grabbing McDoniels is in trouble. His opponent, Tom Salas, 30, steadily moves in, jabbing, and connects with a left cross; McDoniels is down, and out for the count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Pleasure and Pain from Disco Punches | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

White smoke was still billowing Tom the makeshift Sistine Chapel chimney when Pericle Cardinal Felici stepped out on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica. After the first wisp of smoke had appeared, signifying election of a new Pope, crowds streaming toward the historic square had snarled every street in Rome west of the Tiber River. Now more than 100,000 people waited expectantly below the balcony. "I announce to you a great joy," Felici intoned in sonorous Latin. "We have a Pope!" The crowd roared, then hushed to hear the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Foreign Pope | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...distinguished art critic, Tom is weary of his marriage to his promiscuous, desperately chic wife, and finds in his beautiful student a kind of Beatrice to his Dante. Although she is happily married, Natalie is immediately attracted to her professor's radiance of mind. He pursues her, she capitulates only too willingly, and they begin a year-long series of passionate, clandestine meetings. In her first novel, Ellen Schwamm takes this conventional plot and Manhattan milieu and creates a fresh and elegant narrative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reviving the Story-Telling Art | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson, the defensive injury list runs almost into double digits: linebackers Matt Sabetti and Craig Beling, tackles Bub Murrary and Rim Palmer, cornerback Steve Potysman and middle guard Tom McDevitt all have nagging injuries that could keep them out. On offense, scrappy center Dave Sheper remains questionable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Must Beat Tigers to Stay Alive in Ivies | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...like going all the way into Boston anyway, did you? Especially when there's so much to offer right here in Cambridge. If you wait until Nov. 17, you can see Grover Washington, Jr. at the Harvard Square Theater. If you hide in the balcony overnight, you can see Tom Waits and Leon Redbone the following evening. For free (otherwise it'll cost you $8.50). From Nov. 9-12 you can catch Stormin' Norman and Suzy at Passim. For those of you who are into Balkan-American Folk Music (fees up, I know you're out there somewhere) Laduvane willbe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not the Rock Column | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

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