Word: jims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leftfielder Jim Lemon. 31, a long and lean slugger (6 ft. 4 in.. 205 Ibs.) who finally shortened his gargantuan batting stride, is tied for fourth in homers (21), stands fifth in runs batted...
Trujillo's government announced that Trujillo himself went to the Constanza area to oversee the counterattack, that Rebel Commander (and onetime Castro Captain) Enrique Jiménes Moya was killed. The rebels fought back with reports that Trujillo was nervously hiding out at San Isidro Air Base, that Jiménes Moya was still alive and fighting, that Pilot Ventura Simó had been executed by a San Isidro firing squad when his propaganda value had been used...
...free speech except bad politicians and complacent bureaucrats," said Glover, drawing an early bead on both. His paper constantly needles the administration's listless native education program, helped earn New Guinea's Chinese new recognition as suitable candidates for citizenship, patiently runs down every tale of Jim Crow injustice from its colored readers. As vigorous a practitioner as a preacher, the Post four years ago set up a native training program in its composing room (one rule: no loose-flowing laplaps), currently employs 28 New Guineans in Port Moresby at salaries ranging up to $63 a month plus...
...responsible for the nation's ICBM program are both ex-Air Force officers. Convair's Atlas team is headed by J. R. ("Jim") Dempsey, 37, West Pointer and onetime Air Force lieutenant colonel; Martin's Titan group is bossed by Howard Merrill, 38, a former Air Force captain. Both men made their reputations after going into industry, not before. They recognized, as do many career officers, that promotions are slow in peacetime, and a bright young man can often do better for himself-and in some ways, better for his country-by putting aside his uniform...
Bright and chipper as a schoolboy the first day of vacation, Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 45, ex-dictator of Venezuela, bounced into the Miami office of State Attorney Richard Gerstein to do some explaining. A Caracas columnist had written that Pérez Jiménez pays $500 monthly for protection to the Miami Beach Police Chief, and Gerstein wanted to know all about it. Pérez Jiménez denied that he paid the police chief anything, but admitted that he hires off-duty Miami cops and pays them a total of $1,025 monthly...