Word: jims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spartan office on Capitol Hill, Democratic Congressman Jim Lloyd of California scanned a letter from seven liberal colleagues last week. They urged him to support their drive to reduce sharply President Ford's proposed all-time high ($113.3 billion) defense budget for fiscal 1977. With no hesitation, Lloyd took a felt-tipped pen and scrawled a bold, red NO across the top of the letter, then underscored the word three times for emphasis...
...winner was to have been decided by a third ballot scheduled for Monday this week. "Big Jim" Callaghan was the odds-on choice to take it; he won 141 votes on the second ballot, to Foot's 133. Thereafter, the two vied for the 38 votes that went to Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, who as low man in that vote automatically dropped out of the race; most of his backers were expected to side with Callaghan, who needs at most 17 additional votes...
...history of the Middle East, and were sold out by English duplicity and Islamic squabbling after 1918. He has been dead 40 years. In the meantime, there have been as many Lawrences as writers: the adulated hero (Robert Graves), the narcissistic moral cynic (Richard Aldington), the Hamlet, the Lord Jim of Araby, the heroic closet queen, and so on down to the sexy, prancing psychotic portrayed by Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. In A Prince of Our Disorder, Harvard Psychiatry Professor John Mack has absorbed them all. His prose has the texture of gray felt...
Baltimore pitching ace Jim Palmer was in mid-season form for yesterday's baseball opener against the Red Sox. The Oriole righthander stifled the defending American League champs on six hits to rack up a 1-0 victory...
...country)--The Crimson offense has been powered to this point by the high-scoring attack trio of Bill MacKenzie, Bill Tennis, and sophomore Steve Martin. The inexperienced defensive unit--two of the starters are sophomores who did not play last year--has rounded into form quickly, and Jim Michelson has contributed a solid effort in the net. There are two freshmen and two sophomores starting on the first two midfield, while two of last year's starters, co-captains Bruce Bruckmann and Scott Mead, are still out on a day-to-day basis with costly injuries...