Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days Ike ran through a jam packed series of appointments dominated by men whose chief concern was the struggle against world Communism. At noontime on the day before Christmas, however, he temporarily abandoned his office with the avowed hope of spending a good, family holiday. That evening, as he helped to decorate the Eisenhower tree and fill his grandchildren's stockings, there seemed no reason why his hope shouldn't come true. But Christmas morning he awoke to the unsettling news that Stalin, through the New York Times, had expressed willingness to meet with...
...able to handle the additional work under the McCarran Act. In the meantime, the U.S. Immigration Service made a "gentleman's agreement" with the major foreign shipping lines to put an inspector aboard the big liners to screen the crews during the voyage; this would avoid a hopeless jam on arrival. The first inspector to try it was Leonard Martin, who went aboard the Liberte when it left New York Dec. 9, and spent the voyage to France and back screening the crew...
...ahead. Daylight revealed a brown fishing beach between two weathered, grey cliffs. Bombard had reached Stroud's Bay in the British West Indian island of Barbados. Within a few hours, he sat down to a hearty landsman's meal of grapefruit, bacon & eggs, bread, a pot of jam, coffee...
Classical performances keep Benny fairly occupied nowadays; he solos with symphony orchestras around the country about once every two weeks. But at the drop of a downbeat, Benny still swings back to his first love. "After the concert," he grins, "we may have a little jam session." He dreams, sometimes, of getting the stars of his old band together again: "Of course, there might be a little less hair all around, but would we play as well? Could...
There was a traffic jam in the center of Lawrence. People seemed to flow down the streets to the train station, and the papers afterwards said there were 50,000 there. The HLU car was jammed between two others, and a policeman wouldn't let it pass. "The President's probably talking already," said the first HLU'er. "Let's get out of here, and go straight to Malden," said the second. "But he's going to give us his answer here," said the third. "And anyway this is his biggest speech. It will last half an hour...