Word: tom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South was coming to discount for the most part American democratic idealism and white liberal ideology because there was so little evidence of either's working." Linking this similar feeling among both blacks and poor whites. Watters sees some hope for an old dream-the kind of populist alliance Tom Watson-and later Huev Long-tried to forge. He is not so naive as to see this as a possibility in the near future but only when the hypnotic power of racism is broken...
...choked as the smell of victory and two infield errors put the tying run on second Villenueve however dashed the Crimson hopes by striking out pinchhitter Tom Waldstein...
...next four days, Janos focused on the ordeal of the three astronauts. Neff reported on how decisions were being reached at Mission Control, while Schefter and Anderson provided commentary on the technical problems of the rescue. Throughout, says Janos, "NASA remained calm, candid and cooperative. Busy Administrator Tom Paine found a quiet corner to talk at length with us about the problems confronting NASA after the accident. Chris Kraft gave Don and me steaming mugs of coffee during one interview, lent us a tape recorder when ours suffered battery problems...
...Houston, cheering and applauding flight controllers joyously lit up their customary cigars as a heartfelt message flashed on a big screen: WELCOME BACK. A few minutes later, NASA's Tom Paine arrived with greetings from President Nixon ("Wonderful team. A job well done"), who also smoked a splashdown cigar in Washington. An especially apt comment came from J. Leonard Swigert, the astronaut's father. Sipping champagne with reporters in his Denver home, the 67-year-old doctor said: "It was a wonderful beginning and a beautiful landing. But I wouldn't give you two hoots for the interim...
...week for the third round of Moratorium observances. In too many cities across the nation, the day belonged to a new breed of hard-eyed youth-Brownshirts of radicalism drawn from the streets, many of only high-school age. The keynote was sounded by the Chicago Seven's Tom Hayden, who told a San Fernando Valley State College audience: "We turned out over a million people for the Moratorium last fall, and the Establishment's response was to congratulate us because there was no violence. That wasn't the goal. The goal...