Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wives, sacks, cats, kits and other factors in the traffic jam on the road to St. Ives had nothing on the entourage that follows the President of the U.S. Last week when Dwight Eisenhower left on a brief vacation to limber up his midwinter kinks in Palm Springs, Calif., his departure resembled a middle-sized troop movement. In addition to his wife and mother-in-law, the President was accompanied by 22 Secret Service men, a personal party of 35 secretaries, aides and servants, and 24 reporters, photographers and radio-TV men, was joined in Palm Springs by 50 additional...
...second week, the Big Four Foreign Ministers' Conference was caught in the ice floes of deadlock over Germany. Molotov had plainly shown that he was no more willing than Stalin had been to break the jam over divided Germany's future. The Westerners had to keep chipping away anyhow: they had come to Berlin either to 1) find agreement, or 2) show all the world that Moscow's policy is still not peace but pretense...
...event on Friday is the "Outdoor Evening" where the coronation of the Carnival's Queen of Snows takes place. She will be chosen from a selection of "dates" judged by the students. In addition, there will be a concert and many jam sessions. The Carnival Ball is on Saturday. The House parties begin at nine...
When Grandma was finally persuaded to send some of her pictures to a country fair, along with canned fruits and jam, her preserves won prizes but her paintings attracted little attention. Not long after, however, a drugstore in the nearby town of Hoosick Falls, N.Y. put some of her pictures in the window. There they were spotted by a Manhattan collector named Louis Caldor. He bought them all and began trying to interest New York art dealers in Grandma's work. Finally he tried the newly opened Galerie St. Etienne, run by a solemn Viennese expatriate named Otto Kallir...
...that cities will die and grass grow in the streets are worried about the new office buildings choking the midtown area. Grass may never grow on the streets, but it may some day grow on the roofs of the cars caught in the daily 5 o'clock traffic jam...