Word: jam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mack may be favored, but this does not rule out the possibility of a five-man jam at the finish line. Besides Mack, the list of first-place candidates includes Ted Johnson and Mike Kingston (the 1959 champion) of Princeton and Harvard's own big three--Mullin, Eddie Meehan, and Ed Hamlin...
...example, Saigon warehouses are stacked with deteriorating carbines, cloth, medical and communications equipment. Reason: Diem's six-year-old army has made no" provision to handle the increased flow. Many combat units have to use guns that have no gun sights or are so badly worn that they jam more often than they fire. Yet new U.S. weapons seem to reach the Viet Cong in quantity...
Brakes on Fecundity. But if the only permissible means of birth control is to shun sexual intercourse (either totally, or during a wife's fertile period-the so-called rhythm method), how can the church hope to cope with the zooming population, which demographers maintain will jam the earth with six billion humans by the turn of the century, compared with 1.85 billion...
...lock. Once on the runway, Grosso might not be able to maneuver the steerable nose wheel, but reverse engine thrust would slow his plane down, and a reserve supply of hydraulic fluid would permit some operation of the main landing-gear brakes. As a last resort, the pilot could jam on the brakes with an emergency supply of compressed air. Grosso radioed for a routine stand-by of Stapleton Airfield's fire trucks and announced to the passengers that the landing might be "a little rough...
...once saved Berlin with slow-moving EUR-475 and EUR-545, now has five to seven times the airlift capacity of a decade ago, with its swift C-13O turboprops and slow but massive (56,000-lb. capacity) EUR-1245. During bad weather, nearby Soviet transmitters might try to jam the radar landing facilities at Berlin's famed Tempelhof Airport, but the annoyance would not be significant, and U.S. antijamming equipment might make it all but unnoticeable...