Word: jims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speed skating, said that for a skater to do well in the 500 meter event, she would have to skate the first 100 meters in 10.8 seconds or less. But the first skater did an 11.7, and Henning said "Great time, great time!" And then there was anchorman Jim McKay's flub of the final hockey score, calling it 6-1 when two minutes before we'd seen Steve Jensen of the US close...
...Crimson's fortunes improved as an ailing Jim Corcoran toyed with his Quaker opponent, racking up a third round cradle. "Corcoran deserves all the credit for turning the whole match around," said Smith...
Harvard's bench showered captain Jim Strathmeyer with ebullient support as he took to the mats while a hyped-up partisan crowd cheered on the Quakers. The Crimson was trailing 16-13 when Strathmeyer knifed in for the deciding take-down. "He hit a guy with a fireman's carry and went on to clobber him," said Smith...
...Jim Skoulikas...
...Jim Andrews, 39, who, with his partner John McMeel, was about to launch the Universal Press Syndicate. With considerable effort, Andrews talked the recent graduate into going national. Then 22, Trudeau signed a twelve-year syndication contract-which continues to give him 50% of Doonesbury royalties, the industry norm. In the fall of 1970, Trudeau's now familiar gang first surfaced in 28 papers. Andrews thought the title Bull Tales might offend some readers, so it was changed to Doonesbury, an amalgam of two words: doone, an old prep-school term for someone who is out to lunch...