Word: thorton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Santa Fe Bo." Tudor Williams is "Wanderin' Wills." Real hoboes they know include a man named "Wild, Wild Wes," who rides with a crow perched on his shoulder, and "Pepsodent Pete," who quit dentistry for the rails. Then there are those who may be starting the life. Thad ("Thunder") Thorton, 22, sits by the Colorado River and talks of being a late child of parents who died early. "I'm not so lonely out here," he says quietly. Thorton left Tulsa last October, aiming to get a Mohawk haircut, see America and eventually settle down as a policeman...
...fiery confrontations; all too rarely do they work together to create any overall unity or dramatic power. The vignettes show the shoddy sides of the villagers and their gossipy morality, but that's been done before. Time and again, Rimers seems to be retreading ground already broken by Thorton Wilder's Our Town...
Women currently within the coaching profession, such as Karen Moe Thorton, women's swim coach at the University of California at Berkeley, point to the fact that coaching opportunities for women really only opened up with the advent of scholarships at the collegiate level less than 15 years ago. Previously, Thornton believes a certain stigma was attached to the title "female athlete" and women were often channeled into instructor positions...
Thornton adds. "The situation should change as younger women have more opportunities to get major jobs. Already many athletic teams prefer to hire women," adds Thorton...
...final analysis, diving and relay points could well determine this year's champion. "We've got to do well in the relays if we're going to win," Cal coach Nort Thorton predicts. "Those double points [relays count twice as much as individual events in the scoring] often are the difference in a close championship meet...