Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stay was a happy one from the start. In the first of his weekly letters back to Matthews, he wrote that the "Economisters" had welcomed him politely enough to give him a "jam-on-jam feeling" the first day. He soon found himself treated as a "resident American oracle," expected to answer at the drop of a pencil such questions as "What is the first name of Senator Johnson from Texas?" and "What is a cookie-pusher?" The answer to these came easy, but occasionally he was jolted by deadpan requests to rattle off statistics-like the average number...
...custom as the seventh-inning stretch and the banana split. Clerks, secretaries, junior executives and salesgirls had come to consider it an inalienable right of the American office worker. In the face of that terrible, soft insistence, the fuming employer could only take his finger off the unanswered buzzer, jam on his hat, and follow along after the crowd to the coffee shop. As a matter of fact, he kind of liked a cup himself...
...Jam-Bang, Blue Eyes. Ride Home Tomorrow supplies all this, as well as other ingredients essential to popular historical fiction. Hero Andres Vaeringer is a handsome, upstanding fellow with a vast curiosity about the world. Born & bred in Norway, he quarrels with his crusty stepfather and flees to England-just in time to run slap into Robin Hood and his merry men and get himself captured by that fine old favorite, the Sheriff of Nottingham. Saved from the scaffold by a pious knight, Andres gets shipped off to the Holy Land, where the air is so thick with plots...
...hated Washington, hated its confusion, its backbiting, its hordes of jet-propelled reformers. But he dutifully gave up his G.E. job and went back, still hating it, took his punishment and his $8,000-a-year Government salary, and did his damndest to break the nation's production jam. He was under the authority of Donald Nelson, a man he came to dislike cordially, and with whom he violently disagreed, particularly about Nelson's plan for early reconversion. As one of the biggest of Big Businessmen, he was fair game for jealous New Dealers. But he discovered that...
Tomorrow night is time for the weekly jam sessions on Second Avenue. The Stuyvesant Casino at 9th Street and the Central Plaza at 6th gather such artists as Max Kaminsky, Red Allen, Sid Catlett, Buster Bailey, Bud Freeman, James P. Johnson, George Wettling, Joe Sullivan, and whoever else of note is in New York and has time to spare...