Word: jam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deepened the old channels. But the three intricate sets of double locks are still unable to accommodate more than 50 to 60 vessels a day-and ships sometimes lie to for 15 hours or more awaiting their turn. Within ten years the present canal would be one big traffic jam...
Rockefeller Men Jam Walkie-Talkie...
Both actions followed a gale of White House phone calls to Capitol Hill. As Lyndon Johnson's admirers saw it, the President deserved all the credit for breaking up the legislative ice jam. Others, however, insisted that Lyndon's poking and prodding had little to do with it, that President Kennedy had already laid the groundwork for congressional action. The truth lay somewhere in between...
...aloud and proud." Flying to New York, Johnson landed at Kennedy Airport, boarded a Marine helicopter, was whisked away to the Wall Street heliport, got into a black limousine and drove to the Carlyle Ho tel - thereby getting the East Side's rush-hour traffic into a memorable jam...
Sixteen hundred fans, the largest crowd to witness a Harvard basketball game in nearly two decades, will jam the IAB tonight to see the man who has become not a legend, but a virtual deity in his own time: Bill Bradley...