Word: jims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ward-heeling school, a big bluff, outgoing operator who belonged to every fraternal organization from the Elks to the Eagles, knew every local Democratic chieftain from his native New York to California, and could win a new ally or stroke an old one with a warm note signed "Jim" in his trademark Irish green ink. He left a prospering building-materials business for politics, "the noblest of careers," becoming New York State Democratic Secretary by 1928, when he managed F.D.R.'s successful gubernatorial race. In 1932 Farley steered Roosevelt's drive for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...from Napa, French Meursault-Charmes '73 and two other Californians, Chalone '74 from Monterey County and Napa's Spring Mountain '73. The U.S. winners are little known to wine lovers, since they are in short supply even in California and rather expensive ($6 plus). Jim Barrett, Monthelena's general manager and part owner, said: "Not bad for kids from the sticks...
Carl Yastrzemski then bounced out to first baseman Chambliss, advancing the runners to second and third. Jim Rice followed, lashing a two-run single up the middle...
...close shaves his fastball gave the faces of hitters. Don Drysdale, a Dodger star of the '60s, was famed as a fastballing headhunter. Basketball, theoretically a noncontact sport and one pleasantly peopled with college types, long had its "hit" men, players like Boston's Jungle Jim Loscutoff, whose primary role was to intimidate opponents...
Therein lie the true hazards of contemporary athletic violence. The debunking of the athlete-as-hero is hardly new. Such disaffected jocks as Dave Meggyesy and Jim Bouton have uncovered more clay feet than there are statues. The facile comparison of football and the Viet Nam War was one of the shibboleths of the '60s. Even the littlest leaguers know that professional sport is hard, fast and punishing. But now there is something more than imagery at stake: a danger that the whole perception of games is being altered...