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  • Of course, a great deal of excitement always stirs up when the name Jimmy Hoffa comes up because it is one of the biggest mysteries still remaining from the late 20th century.

    CNN Transcript May 18, 2006 2006

  • And Pete smelled money and called Jimmy Hoffa -- maybe a bit premature.

    American Tabloid Ellroy, James, 1948- 1995

  • However, a search this week of news databases and the Internet--another big development since 1975--for material containing both the phrases "Jimmy Hoffa" and "office pool" failed to uncover relevant hits.

    Waiting For HoffaHoffa May Be Found, But Much Has Been Lost 2006

  • A suggestion of "Jimmy Hoffa" from your's truly brought snickers to the front row and spotters.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002

  • Hey Andy, the 60s called - they want their mafioso-thug-goon "Jimmy Hoffa" union boss persona back.

    CNSNews.com Headlines 2010

  • But, given the line of questioning he was forced to deal with yesterday, maybe "Jimmy Hoffa" would have been a more fitting nickname for Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin because of all the inferences that he had "disappeared" in Game 1.

    Ottawa Sun 2009

  • His first book, Out of the Jungle: Jimmy Hoffa and the Remaking of the American Working Class, was published by Alfred A.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • There were hiccups—the labor racketeering scandals of the 1950s, Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters.

    Public Unions Get Too 'Friendly' Peggy Noonan 2011

  • I'm now standing on the sidewalk with my left shoe covered with cement and my right shoe in the cement looking like it belongs to Jimmy Hoffa.

    Lloyd Glauberman, Ph.D.: Cement Shoes: A New York Story Ph.D. Lloyd Glauberman 2011

  • I'm now standing on the sidewalk with my left shoe covered with cement and my right shoe in the cement looking like it belongs to Jimmy Hoffa.

    Lloyd Glauberman, Ph.D.: Cement Shoes: A New York Story Ph.D. Lloyd Glauberman 2011

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