Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the President took the speech he wanted to make to the kind of youthful audience he sought: Baylor University's commencement for 665 graduates, where Ike was to receive a doctorate of laws.* Before a crowd of 11,500 jam-packed into Waco's Heart o' Texas Coliseum, he spoke for half an hour, produced few headlines for 1956 but laid down the broad principles "for a better world...
Since Rancho del Monte is still very much open for business, Guestward Ho! will probably net double royalties: 1) at the bookstalls, as a highly readable romp with two innocents in pueblo-land; 2) at Rancho del Monte and vicinity, where soon a big traffic jam...
...church he fumbled wearily in his pockets; he had forgotten his key. He hammered with his hands upon the door. The custodian opened it at last; three scugnizzi emerged from the shadows and entered with him. The surprised custodian, alert to the secret, fed Father Borelli bread and jam with the others, even though this breaking of the fast after midnight kept him from saying Mass the next morning. "This seems like a movie to me," he whispered as he passed the food around...
...jazz-lorn city of Dacca, Pakistan, Dizzy discovered a ragged boy playing a one-stringed instrument on the street, and found the weird sounds so congenial that he stopped and had a jam session. In Karachi the first show was half-empty, the second nearly full, the third packed. "Man," bragged Dizzy, "give us three shows, and we'll create our own audience." At a garden party in Ankara, Gillespie saw a tattered crowd peering from outside the fence and insisted that they be admitted. "We came to play for the poor people as well as the rich people...
...Crusader's chief threat came in the last of the ninth when Kessler weakened and allowed a single and a walk. One pitch later he was out of the jam, as Hastings, Cleary, and Simourian engineered a quick double play to put out the fire...