Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Passing Fancy. But unerringly guided by Arcaro, Hill Prince threaded through the opposition with the zip of a motorcycle in a traffic jam, won by better than a length going away. Among the horses he passed in the closing drive: Derby hopefuls Casemate and Guillotine (winner of. last year's Futurity Stakes-TIME...
...when prices sank to under 50? a bag (TIME, April 3), less than it would cost him to ship them to market, Kennedy had no choice but to destroy the remainder of his crop. Said he: "You might just as well take it when you get in a jam like this...
...downfall of the socially ambitious wife of a university professor. In a winsome domestic scene from A Visit in Bad Taste, a man newly released from prison, where he has done time for a sexual offense against a child, is encouraged by his sister to commit suicide. In Raspberry Jam, a little boy goes to tea with two old ladies, both of them drunks and one a nymphomaniac; they get him tipsy, and after telling him about an Italian lover she once bought, the nymphomaniac plucks and disembowels a live bullfinch under the child's eyes. So it goes...
Violin Virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin, 33, pressing his luck in uncertain transatlantic flying weather, arrived in London's jam-packed Albert Hall on a time schedule thinner than an E string. Delayed two days in New York by fog and engine trouble, one day in Shannon, Ireland by fog, he found London closed in by weather, was landed 75 miles away and driven by car to the concert hall. In street clothes, he panted onto the platform an hour and a half late, played two concertos without rehearsal. The crowd of 6,000 cheered him for ten minutes. Said Menuhin...
Except for a few slippery spots, conditions are good on roads running north and south from Cambridge, Massachusetts State Police reported last night. There have beer no jam-ups in spite of a five inch snowfall in the last two days, the first real snow of the winter...