Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a great leap he dashed into the middle of the snarl, and, with appropriate gestures, had the entire jam straightened out in five minutes. Grateful drivers tooted their horns in tribute to the hero, but the Cambridge police soon rushed up and forced the student back to his books...
Last Wednesday evening the Stompers took over the Savoy stand as house band and Sunday afternoon hocked up with Wild Bill Davison, king-put of Dixieland hornmen, in a jam session royal...
...that wasn't all. His Navy Secretary got himself in a jam and had to be rebuked. And Douglas MacArthur, speaking his piece on Formosa, got the President so worked up that he ordered the General to withdraw his remarks. It was the kind of week during which a President might well ask himself why he had ever gotten into politics in the first place...
Often enough, in his furious haste to get things down on paper and his weakness for pyrotechnics, Faulkner trips over his own inventiveness. His tales of violence then become preposterous and cheap; his livid rhetoric creates a verbal log jam, with prepositions flying wild, clauses drifting crazily and parentheses multiplying like rabbits. But when he is really in command of his story (about half the time), Faulkner makes his rhetoric work for him, even when it is full of echoes of Ciceronian oratory and of overripe Elizabethan poetry...
Last week an audience in Plymouth (Mass.) Memorial Hall saw the world premiere of Florence Wickham's The Legend of Hex Mountain. The legend: if the witch Hexi uses her black powers to save a human life, she loses them. But when her son gets in a jam, is threatened with death by the infuriated Amish townspeople, mother love triumphs. She saves him, is threatened with burning at the stake herself. Before that can happen, there is a flash of dazzling light and the ragged hag emerges in shining white, a new woman. She leaves the village...