Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans caused a near riot them selves on their second night in town when they staged Russia's first jam session at the staid Astoria Hotel. As one member of the cast put it: "The band was doing up Cherokee. It was strictly from the cob. Man, it was square! Lorenzo Fuller [an alternate Sportin' Life] decided to go scalp the piano. Ned Wright [Robbins] felt the spirit striving and took everybody to the sunny side of the street . . . One of the Russian cats got the spirit and did a buck and wing routine that flipped everybody...
...another bit of good news. While you were so busy over there, old godfather's boys were making fools of themselves over at the UN. That should make the old yule log blaze up bright and cheery next week. And don't worry, if you get yourself into another jam with that peace-and-good-will malarky you've been spreading around, why just drop a note to J.F.D. I'm sure he'll help you out. His address is 2100 Virginia Avenue, Washington...
...meadow has long since been surrounded by the center of burgeoning Paris, but no one has been able to dislodge Les Halles, though it is two miles from the main railroad stations and set in a tortuous network of ancient streets barely passable by trucks. In the resulting jam, it takes a truck up to three hours to make the two miles from the Gare de Bercy, and the trucking charges for those two miles from station to market are higher than the shipping charge from the farthest corner of France to the railroad station...
...quintet that played second-class movie and burlesque houses. To supplement their meager take, the members sometimes rented advertising space on the backs of their costumes; at the end of the act the quintet would about-face and reveal plugs for a local line of baby clothes or strawberry jam...
...TRAFFIC JAM is so serious that the Civil Aeronautics Administration will ask next year for about $200 million to install new ground and air controls to direct and speed up planes. The CAA wants to link civilian-airport towers to the air-defense radar system (so that the towers can keep better track of commercial planes), install new extra-long-range radar, and improve pilot-to-tower communications...