Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote," says Amelia Boynton, chairman of the Dallas County Voters League, "has cost worry, blood, sweat, jobs and lives. It is a privilege he should have had all the time. It is one he should use regardless." In Dallas County many Negroes are bent on ousting racist Sheriff Jim Clark and support his rival, Selma's relatively moderate Public Safety Director Wilson Baker. - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee under Stokely Carmichael has mounted a door-to-door campaign to keep Negroes away from the primary polls, even if it means the defeat of Negro candidates or sympathetic whites. Carmichael...
...Diamond Jim Brady, the big, bluff New York Irishman whose stomach was as expansive as his manner, is enshrined in American folklore as one of the truly great spenders of the Gilded Nineties. He spangled himself with outsize diamonds, usually began a twelve-course meal with a gallon of orange juice, hosted lavish dinners where champagne corks were gathered up in laundry baskets. What is not so well known is that Brady was one of the founding fathers of expense-account entertaining. He shrewdly courted publicity because he felt that it was an asset in his job as a railroad...
...medley relay, dashman Wayne Andersen will run the 220. Huvelle the 440, Jim Smith the 880, and Jim Baker the mile...
...singles and a sacrifice fly off reliever Jim Sersich produced Brown's winning run in the eighth. Harvard couldn't even mount a threat against Hefferon's low fastballs...
...going into the sixth with five walks already to his credit, DiMartino's control completely dissipated, and he issued Annie Oakleys to Jeff Grate, Jim Tobin, and Weiz...