Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...channel has just opened up!" cried the excited announcer on station KFRV. "There's a four-foot ice jam across the river! My prediction now is it'll go tomorrow. A big chunk just broke loose below the radio shack! That's the way it starts. Stand by-if anything happens, we'll be back...
...Roman roads like famed Watling Street, which makes a 160-mile run from London to Wales. In the days of gas rationing, austerity and fewer cars, it was possible for the lucky few to speed across country or through cities with ease. But last week, its inadequate road net jammed with 8,000,000 cars, 1,500,000 motorcycles and uncounted millions of bicycles, Britain was locked in a death struggle with a foe long familiar to the U.S., and even more deadly in densely settled Britain: the traffic jam...
Flying as a passenger in a T-33 jet over Colorado, Air Force Colonel John Paul Stapp, rocket-sledding holder of the world land speed record (632 m.p.h.), found himself in a jam when the plane's engine flamed out. No slouch in an emergency, Stapp ejected himself at "somewhere between 8,000 and 10,000 feet," back-somersaulted four times, then opened his chute to float to earth. His only memorable injury: a chipped ankle bone. His pilot, Captain Harry B. Davis, a Negro fighter-pilot veteran of the Korean war, was not so lucky, died after...
Gene Kelly Pontiac Special (CBS, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Gene Kelly running and dancing wild to a background of a new poem by Carl Sandburg, a jazz jam session by Arranger Nelson Riddle, a ballet score by Peter Gunn Composer Henry Mancini...
Kensetsu Nakayama may have been the only stone-throwing republican in sight, but Akihito's unprecedented marriage was not quite the big draw everyone anticipated. Though officials had expected at least 1,000,000 people to jam the streets, only about half that number showed up; modern Japan preferred to watch the proceedings on television. Back in 1924, the Emperor's wedding had cost $1,500,000; the bill for Akihito's, with all banquets and receptions included, will come to only $140,000. The crowds waved and cheered, but not with the same frenzied banzais that...