Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Electronic Countermeasures. In Jackson, Miss., highway patrolmen were looking for the motorists suspected of building short-wave radio transmitters to jam the police radar speed detection system...
...constitution promulgated in 1951, it seemed to be driving hard towards self-government, along the same boisterous lines as its rival-neighbor, Prime Minister Nkrumah's Gold Coast (TIME, Feb. 9). Yet last week the Colonial Office admitted that the constitution was a flop, and Nigeria in a jam...
Children's Digest meets the blood & thunder of the comic books head-on by running full-color illustrated versions of stories and poems such as Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade. Readers also get simple crossword puzzles with pictured hints, e.g., a drawing of a jam jar next to the definition. "It's good on bread." Parents' also puts out Piggety's ("The Children's Magazine of Animal Stories"), and for girls (ages eight to twelve) looking for a "service magazine," Polly Pigtails', which provides gentle tips for dieting under the title...
After a conference with city officials on the parking jam-ups around the Houses, Dean Leighton yesterday announced that the College would begin an immediate crack-down on violators of parking regulations...
...jam did develop for latecomers at the first turn. Native Dancer was bumped by a swerving horse. Jockey Guerin eased him back, looking for racing room, then took him around the rest of the turn on the outside. At the half-mile mark...