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Word: jam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem. For though clearly the young lovers had far better have stayed apart, the play in the final and family sense is a lament for untogetherness. It dramatizes the barriers between generations, the dangers in families that have no communications system. What with the young couple's agonizing jam, the dangers in Blue Denim get vividly spotlighted and the story line holds. But there is not much at the end of the line, and there is more spotlight than illumination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Slew Play in Manhattan | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...southern Turkey experienced a new prosperity. Turkey's sugar production, which nearly trebled between 1950 and 1956, was barely able to keep pace with domestic demand. Reason: the Turkish peasant, with money in his pocket, had taken to using sugar for sweetening instead of honey or homemade fruit jam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Impatient Builder | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...furbelows that burden most musical telecasts. In the murky, smoke-choked studio, more than two dozen of the best jazz vocalists and sidemen worked through eight of the best jazz numbers with the kind of love, wonder, almost mystical absorption they usually summon up in the most free-wheeling jam sessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...YORK, Dec. 10--A growing subway strike, worst in the city's history, converted New York today into a vast, hopeless traffic jam. Two-thirds of the city's rapid transit service was knocked...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: MBA Walkout Paralyzes N.Y.C. In Largest City Subway Strike; Doctors Allow Ike's NATO Trip | 12/11/1957 | See Source »

...sleep more than five hours a night"-for a breakfast of black coffee, meat and fruit, drives himself to work in his Fiat. Because he has stuck so closely to his office, he is not well known to most Mexicans. Not until next week, when P.R.I, delegates and spectators jam Mexico City's giant bull ring to hear him accept the nomination, will a sizable crowd of Mexicans see their next President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Next President | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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