Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Supplies to the guerrillas from Tito's Yugoslavia had ceased completely, but Albania was still sending a steady stream of canned beef, jam, sugar, macaroni, guns & ammunition to the Communists' mountain positions. A U.S. officer inspecting the government's crack 9th Division in the Grammos sector saw heavy artillery fire directed against Greek forces from Albanian territory; a Dutch U.N. observer sitting on an upturned ammunition case neatly noted the positions of Communist guns in Albania. The Tirana radio last week charged that Greek government troops had invaded Albanian territory...
According to TIME, Murphy began quietly with: "Let's see if we can't apply reason and not emotion." Then, later: "Let us suppose one of your children is apprehended in the kitchen with jam on his face. We don't have to get a stomach pump to find out if he's been eating jam. We have the jam on his face." Finally, referring to Hiss: "Inside that smiling face is a heart black and cancerous...
...Jam on the Face. There were, he continued, three uncontradicted facts: 1) that Chambers had in his possession copies of secret State Department documents; 2) that these documents were all dated in the first three months of 1938; 3) that all but one of the typed documents were copied on the Hiss typewriter. With all "that country bumpkin stuff," the defense attorney had refuted none of these points...
...suppose one of your children is apprehended in the kitchen with jam on his face," said Murphy. "We don't have to get a stomach pump to find out if he's been eating jam. We have the jam on his face...
...charge the horse. The riders of the jeep were quick to approve. Above the young bull's number in a thick registry book, a rider initialed in red ink the letters B.P. (for Bravo Pronto). That meant that two years later, on some Sunday afternoon, in some jam-packed arena in Latin America, the fighting animal would carry the proud red-grey-and-gold colors of La Punta...