Word: jam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local businessman yesterday charged bitterly that recent traffic changes in Brattle Square have increased congestion and caused a "monumental traffic jam" last Saturday...
...letter to the City Council, William Ehrlich, vice president of Touraine's, said "Any of the members of the Council who were in Brattle Square on Saturday must have realized that the monumental traffic jam on that day was worse than any that has been experienced at any time in the past...
Borrowing a moment from Tea and Sympathy, for example, he achieved the evening's most uproarious moment by having his heroine take the hand of her shy and inhibited hero and jam it inside her mink coat. With splendid originality, he had two characters walk offstage during one long talky interchange, then reappear, still talking, thus creating a sense of a conversation that had been going on for at least 200 years. "But Mike's main contribution, more important than those bits, was his sense of comedic values," says Schisgal. "He knew how to integrate the work...
From Anka to Zeckendorf, some 1,500 of Manhattan's nabobs and thing-amabobs brought their fairest ladies to the $150-a-seat benefit premiere of The Movie Version (see CINEMA). The traffic jam packed 14 blocks of Broadway so solidly that Star Audrey Hepburn had to desert her limousine to trek the last block to the theater. Still, the snafu gave the locust swarm of lensmen a heyday, feasting their flashbulbs on the likes of Jean Kennedy Smith and Mrs. Winston ("CeeZee") Guest, as well as a handful of Hollywood's last duchesses. Joan Fontaine simply glowed...
...divided Communist Party, which for the present is as dedicated to nonviolence as the pro-Peking wing is committed to violence. The crowds were orderly, but by organizing token attempts to break through police cordons, the Reds hoped to get 100,000 people arrested in five days and jam the jails. The police contented themselves with arresting 11,000 demonstrators, including the top pro-Russian leader, S. A. Dange, and most were sentenced to only a week in prison...