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Word: tomming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tom Murphy is the most vocal bull in the auto industry, and he is out on a lengthening limb. While other auto chiefs forecast that Americans this year will buy about 11 million cars, slightly below last year's near record. Murphy takes all those reports on his desk, puts them through his own mental calculator, adds some instincts that come from his 40 years in the nation's most important industry, and tells one and all that the figure will approach 11,750,000. Sales were set back by the worst winter he has ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Murphy's Law: Things Will Go Right | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...Tom Prewitt is cold, ironical, and very effective in his role as Dick Savage, the bright young businessman under Moorehouse's wing. Prewitt's greatest assets are his insincere smile and deceptively flat voice. Where Moorehouse is soft, Prewitt's Savage is tough and pragmatic. Somehow he will survive the Crash and become the new era's success story; even as the cognac flows in a Paris cafe in celebration of the end of the world war, Savage suggests somewhat cheerfully, "Who knows? We might be back here for the next...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: An American Collage | 3/24/1978 | See Source »

...officials dished out severalmatching minors to calm things down as play got a little sloppy and tempers flared in the last part of the second, and the third started the same way, when Terrier Bill Cotter and Badger Tom Ulseth drew off-setting sentences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Badgers Wisconsin, 5-2; Silk Scores Two in NCAA Semis | 3/24/1978 | See Source »

Last season's seven-man Tom Howes and three-man Paul Templeton will fight for varsity starboard spots with stellar sophomores Charlie Altekruse and George Hatch and 1977 J.V.'s. Parker had Altekruse switch from the port side during the early part of the school year in order to redress an apparent imbalance in the strengths of the Crimson's two sides...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Parker's Young Men Go West for Crew Classic Head for San Diego Opener | 3/24/1978 | See Source »

Honorable Mention: Forwards--Juan Mitchell (Columbia), Brian Banks (Harvard), and Bob Hooft (Harvard); Guards--Tom Farrell (Brown) and Cedric Carter (Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOREBOARD | 3/21/1978 | See Source »

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