Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd on Harlem's Lenox Avenue near 111th Street. "I am out on bail because you brought me out of jail," he boomed. "I am back just in time to get re-elected . . . and no S.O.B. Medina is going to stop me." Newly freed Comrades Robert Thompson and Henry Winston, who came along for the ride, tossed a little more verbal kerosene on the fire; so did Party-Line Chanter Paul Robeson...
...COVENANT (469 pp.)-Morton Thompson-Doubleday...
...incidents made familiar by every war story since What Price Glory. His soldiers, never silent, are always armed with dialogue that should keep movie audiences giggling and, in the acceptable Sergeant Flagg style, mordantly gripe and gibe at each other. That fixture of war movies, the rookie (Marshall Thompson) with the Mother's Boy face and a frightened desire to please the grownups, turns up in the first scene; not long after, enters the friendly, lushly curved peasant girl (Denise Darcel). And so the show goes its well-worn way until the last survivors, about to be chopped...
...Well, our team is GREEN. DESIMONE. But TEHAN is quicker than the IZZI and we'll give 'em a SOCCORSO. New give me a little THOMPSON, or ALTIERI you limb from limb...
...newcomers is an Englishman named Roger Bennett, a first year Business School student; another is a Chilean Law Schooler named John Cotter. Jack Thompson, a student at the Episcopal Theological School is the third, and sophomore Ken Kunhardt is the remaining untested rugger...