Word: elmo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high court also did itself a favor. In a ruling that may make litigants think twice about wasting the justices' efforts on hopeless appeals, they implemented a 1980 rule for the first time. Former Student Elmo Tatum, in a series of unsuccessful legal maneuvers labeled "entirely without merit" by a lower court, sued the University of Nebraska on a housing grievance. In a terse order, not only did the court turn down his appeal, it made him pay $500 in damages. Although the amount was modest, the message seemed clear: the court appears to be getting tougher on what...
...just R and B covers, Jagger was caught by surprise, responding "Oh! You're right; that's a good idea." But still the Stones have always tended to fall back on what they know best: Black American blues. For quite a while, Brian Jones favored the stage name Elmo Lewis...
...Harmon), a political comer who weds Constance Wei-don (Morgan Fairchild), the snooty illegitimate daughter of Whorehouse Madam Lute-Mae Sanders (Stella Stevens) and Millowner Claude Weldon (Kevin Mc Carthy), who is married to the patrician Eudora Weldon (Barbara Rush), whose affair with the town's newspaper editor, Elmo Tyson (Mason Adams), may have produced teen-age Skipper Weldon (Woody Brown), who aims to elope with Waitress Annabelle Troy (Dianne Kay), who dies in a fire at Claude's mill that was planned by Truro's venal sheriff, Titus Semple (Howard Duff...
...claims that the Navy is doing a poor job of instructing its personnel. "There is no on-the-job training," he says. "When a problem arises, they always go to the guy who already knows everything." Barns also resents the stiffening of regulations after the 1974 departure of Admiral Elmo Zumwalt as Chief of Naval Operations. Says Barns: "Zumwalt was great. For example, he allowed us to keep civilian clothes aboard ship. But now all that has changed. For me, it just got to the point of no challenge...