Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often harder task of ending a short story, Novelist Bates seems not to know how to get out of the double mess he has contrived, and put The Sleepless Moon to sleep. But in the last extremity, there is a classic way out for all novelists in a jam, and Bates uses it. The tavern wench dies of an abortion, and unhappy Melford is let off his hook. Frankie runs out on Constance, but she is still hooked in the heart, and pitches herself from the church tower. What this trite tale of love and death is intended to light...
...quarter-century of effective service in the vast Standard hierarchy. Such a man, Wilson reasons, should not "get frustrated too quick in this big place." Then, with characteristic Wilson candor, the Defense Secretary made Murphree's position of authority clear. "I think if he gets into a jam between the services," Wilson said, "I will be in it with...
...aircraft. But if you choose the second alternative, you must not expect to make a profit." For too long, said he, Britain's aircraft industry has been "looking too hard at the stars and tripping over its own feet," has done too much "talking about tomorrow's jam instead of concentrating on today's bread and butter. The time has come to build more aircraft and fewer models. In my opinion, American jets will not be operating until well into the 19603, by which time the Britannia turboprop and the Comet IV will have been operating...
...main thoroughfare from the east, and it carries heavy traffic during the rush hours. A time clock system has long been used to favor incoming movement in the morning and outgoing movement in the late afternoon, but unexpected bursts of traffic from the ballpark, churches and stores often jam the avenue. Designed to forestall such traffic emergencies, the new system, made by Eastern Industries, Inc., has proved remarkably successful...
...which he uses without oratorical tricks. In interviews with foreign correspondents (which he gives readily) he is quiet-spoken, impassive, with no trace of emotion except, occasionally, a quick, bland smile that, says one correspondent, "crinkles his face like that of a boy who knows where the pot of jam is hidden." When talking, he likes to make a little cage of his hands, fingertips against fingertips...