Word: jimming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...JIM HALL, director of the Boise, Idaho, parks department, on firing two temporary employees at the city's ice rink after they made a midnight fast-food run in a pair of Zambonis, traveling 1.5 miles in the $75,000 vehicles, whose top speed is 5 m.p.h...
...Iraq with the audience and "it happened to deviate one iota, one little inch, from what the President's doing ... it would be terrible." But he kept on talking: "It'd bring great anxiety not only to him but to his supporters." And talking: "In the early 1960s, Jim Baker and I were the men's doubles champions in tennis in the city of Houston," he said of the former Secretary of State, now co-chairing a panel that is supposed to make recommendations about what to do in Iraq. And then the former President talked some more...
...Iraq with the audience and "it happened to deviate one iota, one little inch, from what the President's doing ... it would be terrible." But he kept on talking: "It'd bring great anxiety not only to him but to his supporters." And talking: "In the early 1960s, Jim Baker and I were the men's doubles champions in tennis in the city of Houston," he said of the former Secretary of State, now co-chairing a panel that is supposed to make recommendations about what to do in Iraq. And then the former President talked some more...
...capping a fifteen minute stretch of frenetic, rather sloppy play that featured all of the game’s seven ties and eight lead changes. “A couple quick threes, and next thing you know, two points can be twelve,” senior point guard Jim Goffredo said. “At the same time, we weren’t able to score.” From that point forward, the Crimson (1-3) saw the parity that they had struggled to build throughout the game crumble under a barrage of three pointers from Holy Cross...
...describe their predicament accurately, but it sterilizes it at the same time. That's why Orwell warned that "if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." "It's like the government announcing it would no longer talk about 'uninsured people', but 'people with reduced health care access,'" says Jim Weill, President of the Food Research and Action Center. "It's replacing a phrase which has emotional punch for people with one that's drained of any power." Nord himself acknowledges the weight of the word. "Those who work closest with us and know firsthand what hunger is feel that...