Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film for the twelfth chapter, "The War at Sea." As he flicked the knob of his film viewer, I saw a periscope's view of a torpedo-blasted Japanese ship. Another strip showed another side of the submariner's life-a U.S. jazz trio playing a jam session 150 feet under the sea. He showed me many other interesting strips-a Navy plane's gun-camera record of dive-bombing a Japanese ship and an enemy ship's movie of a U.S. Navy plane attacking...
...guardians of the Iron Curtain suppress news and ideas from the free world, keep out visitors, jam broadcasts. But they cannot turn back the wind, which in Central Europe blows from West to East. The thought of using this wind to talk to the people in Red Europe has long fascinated Westerners. One night last week, thought became action...
Congress had only until Saturday midnight to act. By then the Defense Production Act would expire, and with it all the President's power to control a galloping war economy. Obviously Congress would not let that happen. Congressional leaders got set to jam through a temporary extension until a new bill was ready to take its place. That new bill is not apt to please Harry Truman...
...must rise in wrathful indignation against a [sentence] in your thumbnail sketch of V.M.I. [TIME, May 28] . . . The day does not begin officially with breakfast at 7 a.m. but with a grim reveille formation in an earlier darkness . . . Waiting until the last split second to make reveille, "old" cadets jam through the arches and leap out of first floor windows...
...example, Conant stated, an airport-bound traveller caught in a traffic jam doesn't throw his ticket away on the assumption that he will miss his plane...