Word: toms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stargell unloaded on the first pitch from reliever Tom Hume with Dave Parker and pinch-runner Matt Alexander aboard. Hume replaced Tom Seaver, who held the Bucs to two runs through the first eight frames...
...your children of the native quarters which electricity never reaches men dying drunk abandoned to the rhythm of death 's tom-toms...
...wrote Agostinho Neto, the poet, doctor and revolutionary who became Angola's first President in 1975. The tom toms pounded for Neto last week when he died in a Moscow hospital at the age of 56, following surgery for cancer of the pancreas and cirrhosis of the liver...
...RIGHT STUFF by Tom Wolfe; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 436 pages...
Nearly 15 years ago, a vanilla tornado named Tom Wolfe whirled out of Esquire and the New York Herald Tribune's Sunday magazine supplement to announce the coming of the pop-rock culture. Readers accustomed to spending their weekends with articles like "Brazil: Colossus of the South" were suddenly snapping awake to such Wolfean fare as "Oh, Rotten Gotham -Sliding Down Into the Behavioral Sink," "Natalie Wood and the Shockkkkkk of Recognition" and "Muvva Earth and Codpiece Pants." The prose itself rollicked with words like "lollygagging" and "infarcted," embedded in pages that were covered with a confetti of punctuation...