Word: jam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introduction of a clotty relative, and the author, who was born into a wealthy St. Petersburg family, recalls with admiration the pre-Revolution pastime of his favorite uncle, who used to lie in bed with a .22 pistol and shoot flies which gathered on the ceiling to eat the jam he had smeared there. Footmen stood by, Sanders recalls, with champagne, ammunition and more jam. After his family fled to England, Sanders easily withstood a British public-school education (Brighton College), got a job with a South American cigarette company, but was thrown out when he pinked his mistress...
...such an atmosphere, Millionaire Williams (Mennen shaving cream, etc.) is well out of a jam by washing up and checking out. He has realistically written off his hopes of getting on the national ticket this year, told his TV audience that he would like "to work for the cause of peace in some public office" or, barring that, "as a private citizen...
...tribesmen, clad in red-and-blue turbans, black pants and tunics, and weighted down with massive silver ankle-rings and foot-and-a-half-long hairpins, arrived with the jam, the boys at the Snow Leopard sent their Chinese agents to bid for the crop. Even though this has been a bad year for poppies-there was a two-month drought in the hills-the Meo are getting only the equivalent of $20 a kilo (2.2 lbs.). The same kilo, when it reaches the Laotian capital of Vientiane, will be worth $60; at Saigon in South Viet Nam it will...
...cash crop available to them-the export of the drug is illegal. The boys at the Snow Leopard get around the ban by maintaining a fleet of half a dozen Single-engine Beavers and Pipers outfitted with auxiliary gas tanks. They fly into South Viet Nam and parachute the jam to agents in isolated valleys, who carry it to Saigon...
Fighting her way through a blizzard from New York to a Pittsburgh speaking date, Eleanor Roosevelt, a lively 75, first had her plane land in Columbus, then dauntlessly hopped a bus for a 200-mile last lap. After the bus was delayed by a traffic jam and snowdrifts, Pennsylvania state police rescued Mrs. Roosevelt but did not get her to Pittsburgh until hours too late. Losing no more time, she caught a train back to Manhattan. How had she whiled away her time on the snailish bus? "Waiting to get there...