Word: jims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tory Party advertising was bursting from billboards and TV sets proclaiming LABOR ISN'T WORKING. Conservative Party Leader Margaret Thatcher, 52, canceled a holiday trip to France and waded into a twelve-hour-a-day schedule of speeches and political appearances. For his part, Prime Minister James ("Sunny Jim") Callaghan, 66, seemed as caught up as everyone else in a pre-election whirl, trumpeting the virtues of his Labor Party at the annual Trades Union Congress in a rousing partisan speech that brought delegates to their feet...
...they emerged, and there they were: Duke O'Connell as Jim Morrison of The Doors, Mona Caywood-Moore as Janis Joplin, Marc Hazebrouck as Jim Croce, Jesse Bolt as Elvis Presley, and wonder of wonders, Bolt's girlfriend Erin Rhyne as a female Elvis Presley...
Eichner, from Kansas (remember Jim Ryun?), likewise shone as a Yardling, providing the extra strength needed to win the IC4A crown that year. Last fall, Eichner showed up at camp out of peak condition and failed to place among the top finishers until the end of racing season...
...publicity-getter who won't be getting too much anymore is Jim Curry. After signing as a free agent with the NFL New York Giants in June, the split end punter stayed on the club through most of training camp before getting the axe on the next-to-last cuts...
Recently Saturday Review flaunted a complaint titled "Jogging Mania-Enough Already!" Art Buchwald proposed a mileage tax on runners, and New York Daily News Humorist Gerald Nachman whimsically reviewed The Complete Book of Lollygagging-a title not precisely the same as that of Jim Fixx's bestselling rhapsody on running. Russell Baker, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor-all have joined in a spirited backlashathon...