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  • The movie totally rocks, and as a result, it is the nice guy Terminator -- the one who says "Hasta la vista, baby" and fights the good fight while George Thoroughgood shreds "Bad to the Bone" -- who has stayed in our minds as Arnie's defining role, rather than the mean Terminator who kills every woman he can find named Connor.

    TV Review: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 1 2008

  • The movie totally rocks, and as a result, it is the nice guy Terminator -- the one who says "Hasta la vista, baby" and fights the good fight while George Thoroughgood shreds "Bad to the Bone" -- who has stayed in our minds as Arnie's defining role, rather than the mean Terminator who kills every woman he can find named Connor.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • The freeman learned he had to have a first name to join a Negro regiment and fight in the Civil War; so he called himself Thoroughgood, simplified to Thurgood for his great-grandson.

    A Great Original's Lives At The Law 2008

  • In honor of his paternal grandfather, Thurgood was given two first names, Thorneygood and Thoroughgood, when he was born.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • In honor of his paternal grandfather, Thurgood was given two first names, Thorneygood and Thoroughgood, when he was born.

    His Uncle Was Fearless 2007

  • In time, grandson Marshall would decide he preferred the name Thoroughgood.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • And then there were more caricature wood-block engravings for posting-bills than there are at the present time, the principal printers, at that time, of posting-bills being Messrs. Evans and Ruffy, of Budge Row; Thoroughgood and Whiting, of the present day; and Messrs. Gye and Balne, Gracechurch

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • In time, grandson Marshall would decide he preferred the name Thoroughgood.

    His Uncle Was Fearless 2007

  • But he is a 10th-generation descendant of Adam Thoroughgood, and he has spent 15 years pulling together every scrap of paper he can find on his ancestor.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • Her son, by the first husband, Adam Thoroughgood II of Lower Norfolk County, was equally zealous that proper memorials be placed and directed his executrix (wife), in his will, dated 1679, to have his body interred in the Church at Lynnhaven, and "cause a tombstone of marble to be sent for, with coat of arms of Sir George Yeardley [his wife's father] and myself."

    Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester

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