Word: jam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City Editor Leo Hirtl of the Cincinnati Post & Times-Star, the rumor that City Solicitor William McClain was in a jam rated a routine check. Since McClain had been seen around probate court the previous week, Hirtl sent a reporter to chat with court officials. The reporter discovered that McClain had appointed a man named William Jackson to appraise a recently settled estate. Jackson, it turned out, was a pseudonym for Norman S. Payne, a probate court employee who got a fee of $100, although he was not entitled to indulge in such moonlighting...
...Russian broadcasts beat the state radio by 1½ hours with news of the fall of Nikita Khrushchev; this year it carried the most complete accounts of the trials of Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel. Red China, North Korea and North Viet Nam still try to jam VOA transmissions, but all the Communist countries of Europe except Bulgaria have quit jamming...
...Republican Party has managed to jam the executioner's gun that seemed so ready to fire after 1964 [Nov. 18]. To those who see the two-party system as an important factor in the maintenance of U.S. democracy, a revived G.O.P. is a comforting sight. However, Republicans have no reason to hope for anything more than temporary resurrection unless the discontent that put them into office spurs them into offering fresh ideas for dealing with the problems that now weigh upon our society...
...tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has produced the greatest proletarian traffic jam in history. From Tibet to Tsingtao, the roads, rails and airlines of Red China are jammed with Chinese on the move. Most are Red Guards heading to and from Peking to spread the word of the leader's glory. Their road map-passed out on trains, sung on airliners-is a cheap (about 25?), red, plastic-bound copy of Mao's Thought. So massive is the movement that the government has begun to drop a hint to the faithful: get out and walk...
...houses which were denied the daily 30-cent subsidy granted earlier this year will be sent deliveries of canned juice, instant coffee, bread, margarine, and jam. "How they use it is their own affair," Mrs. Bunting said...