Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time when more Americans than ever before are taking to the nation's highways, I am sure you will enjoy re-reading Writer Paul O'Neil's wonderful account of "The Last Traffic Jam" (TIME...
...steadfastly refused to see that nothing could solve the traffic evil but the fast-multiplying automobile itself. The problem would end for good on the day of the last traffic jam-at that shrieking moment when every highway, street, road and lane in the nation was so clogged with cars that none could ever move again. Only then would man be free of the monster. But would he accept his freedom? It seemed doubtful. It would be too easy to lay boards across the tops of a billion sedans and start all over again with jet propulsion, foam rubber wheels...
Since the start of the cold war, the U.S. has had only two direct ways of spreading its ideas in Russia: through the Voice of America and a handsome, LIFE-sized, slick-paper magazine called Amerika. The Russians can often jam out the Voice, but they have never been able to down Amerika, published by the State Department. Nobody knows how effective the magazine really is, but from the amount of space devoted to attacking it in the Russian press, State concludes that it is being read and discussed. Another measure of Amerika's strength is that the Russians...
...senior sons and daughters spent yesterday holding a song feet at jam session and attending the pops will their parents, will also join the parade to the Essex club and singing Beach today. The Younger family members will were entertained yesterday by a sport program and a magic show, will go magnolia Beach with counsellors today...
...clip joint where the believers turn in all their worldly goods to a matronly supply sergeant known as the "Divine Mother." Liz spots it all for a fake and heads back to Guru No. 1. In the meantime, steady old Charles has got himself into a diplomatic jam. Reminding herself of the guru's "Truth is in your own heart," Liz looks there, finds she still loves Charles, flies back to help him face the music. As they clinch on the runway, Charles says: "Let's not moan and groan . . . let's bill and coo." And they...