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Word: tomming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost a century ago, in Tom Sawyer Abroad, he described how his hero boarded a balloon in the Midwest and flew across the Atlantic with his loyal comrade, Huck Finn. Don't journalists read Mark Twain any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 18, 1978 | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...undetected flight into the U.S. of a plane carrying Colombian marijuana or cocaine is a dramatic but far from unusual event. "Several hundred come in every day," says Tom Stuckey, an FAA official in Louisiana. Most flights from Colombia are bound for Florida and Georgia; a DC-7 with twelve tons of marijuana was discovered at an airfield in Georgia last spring. Countless other "pot planes" take off from Mexico for the deserts of the Southwest, where the Drug Enforcement Administration has found more than 40 small aircraft abandoned this year. The trafficking is a high-profit operation: a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Defense Is Not Ironclad | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Humperdink, known for his Tom Jones-like sexuality, will appear in one sequence talking from Weeks Memorial Bridge near Leverett House. In another segment he will be seen jogging along the river with Pat Mitchell, hostess of the show...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Humperdink Plugs Fitness in TV Run Along the Charles | 9/15/1978 | See Source »

ATLANTA. Burned once by William Tecumseh Sherman and again by Irving Thalberg, city of Tom Watson and Gregg Allman and Bert Lance and Jimmy Carter, --populists all, huzzah! From Peachtree Plaza to the White House, springing up from the ashes, born again --the place you have to go to get to almost every other place. The air crossroads of the western world, or at least those southernmost provinces of These United States --oh, Atlanta...

Author: By Dequinces W. Josephson, | Title: Oh, Atlanta | 9/14/1978 | See Source »

Arthur Ashe, winner of the first U.S. Open in 1968, likewise decries the new superstars' lack of loyalty to the game. As an amateur, Ashe earned $28 a day for his ten-day stint at Forest Hills, while the beaten finalist, Pro Tom Okker, took home a check for $14,000. Says Ashe: "Only when the players take it upon themselves to assume responsibility for the circuit and the health the game as a whole will we have coherence. Right now we've got some greedy players at the top who do whatever they please, entering tournaments late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Home for a Troubled Game | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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