Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like a gift from God," said linebacker Jim Nelson. "You couldn't think of a more perfect time for those things to happen. Sometimes championship teams get lucky...
...enraged by the fact that it is now nine years ago," said Dr. Jim Swire. "A compromise is required and we accept the compromise of a trial under Scottish law in a neutral country...
...ways; the black-and-white world he inherited all but decreed his failure. The youngest of five children, whose father abandoned the family shortly after his birth in rural Georgia, Jackie was taken, along with his siblings, by their mother Mallie from the segregated South to Pasadena, Calif. But Jim Crow restrictions existed there too. His elementary school transcript contained a curt note about the young boy's probable future: "Gardener." Jackie's extraordinary athletic abilities--in football, basketball, baseball and track--won the cheers of the same townspeople who would not allow him to swim in the municipal pool...
...father's shadow, yet he seems most comfortable within its famous outline. Strolling on a breezy autumn morning with workers amid the trucks, crates and loading docks outside a Detroit produce warehouse, Hoffa exudes a blue-collar bravado that would make Papa proud. A lawyer by training, Jim Jr. has to work hard to appear common, but he's got the stocky carriage, swagger and serious blue eyes that summon up the visage of the Teamster leader who disappeared 22 years ago. Perhaps even more important, as almost daily disclosures of scandal cripple the 1.4 million-member union, Hoffa...
...just another guest. "He was kind of a nondescript sort of a guy," said Gil Hause, a Colorado resident who worked with him on his 1974 book "Centennial." "He had a battered old straw hat, wore jeans and a flannel shirt, tennis shoes and was of medium-build.... But Jim was a man who had a very deep feeling for humanity...