Word: toms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Taco: literally "Uncle Taco," the Mexican-American equivalent of an Uncle Tom. An equally contemptuous synonym is vendido, sellout...
...them light out for In dian territory in pursuit of the evil Tom Chaney, her dad's murderer, who is riding with the dreadful Ned Pepper gang. Mattie and Rooster are joined by La Boeuf (Glen Campbell). That makes five eyes altogether, and woe to the criminal that tries to evade them. The dastardly Chaney can contrive to shoot Rooster and bash in La Boeuf's head and trap Mattie in a rattlesnake pit. But doom hangs over him. What devil, after all, could even hope to best good Christians who possess true grit-the 19th century version...
...Tom is now headed for the University of Michigan law school on a full tuition scholarship, having rejected similar offers from three other top law schools-Duke, Chicago and Harvard. He hopes to become a lawyer (and future politician) as fast as he became a college graduate. For one thing, he has a family speed record to defend. Next fall his younger brother James will enter Wittenberg-with 20 out of the required 36 credits. If he maintains Tom's pace, James will also graduate in one year, but at the age of 18, compared with Tom...
...rankings; this year, in each of his two qualifying rounds for the Open, he survived the cut by a single stroke. No matter. In a season when the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Arnold Palmer and Billy Casper were bested by such unknowns as Ken Still, Jim Colbert, Tom Shaw and Larry Hinson, Moody figured to have as good a chance as anyone in the wide Open. By copping the $30,000 first prize, he became the ninth player this season to win his first Professional Golfers' Association tournament...
...join. He converted a pair of old pool cues into drumsticks on a school lathe, bought a snare drum and began practicing. That was a decade ago, when they were 13 and schoolboys in suburban El Cerrito, Calif. With Stu Cook on piano and John's brother Tom on bass guitar, they began as the Blue Velvets, complete with greasy hair, ducktails and matching outfits. Their stuff, as John admits now, was "pure drivel." Then they became The Golliwogs because their manager at the time thought they needed a Beatle-ish name...