Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin-haired, bespectacled, 31-year-old Reshevsky lived in present-day Russia-where chess is the national pastime and people jam the streets to watch the moves of championship matches on giant dummy boards-he would be a national hero. But in the U.S., where chess has no more spectator appeal than calisthenics, Reshevsky is just another guy named...
General Chennault's Air Task Force, based in China's Yünnan Province, worked hard all week. Having won control of the air over Yünnanyi, most advanced Jap base inside southwest China, the flyers hit Lashio four times to try to jam the railhead through which supplies flow to the Japs' Salween front. For the first time they jumped on Japanese convoys on the Burma Road in broad daylight, hitting oil dumps in the junction town of Mingmao twice and catching trucks dispersed under trees. They blew up a railroad bridge south of Mandalay...
...whom played at guard for the '45 Freshman team. Mal Moley, '45 tennis star, is also competing. Mike Keene, captain of last year's Freshman team, who was converted from center to guard by Brown, is out for around 11 weeks with a broken wrist suffered in a jam-up under the basket in practice last week...
...hard fight for a sensible, democratic censorship, newsmen had been reassured by the appointment of Byron Price as head of the Office of Censorship. When able Elmer Davis took over as head of OWI last summer, with executive powers straight from the President, newsmen believed that the military news jam would be dynamited. Yet within the last weeks have come some of the war's worst examples of inept, demoralizing suppression of war news...
...pains taken by the Nazis to jam United Nations' broadcasts is a guide to the willingness of Germans to listen. Some experts guess that perhaps a million Germans still...