Word: jam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comfortable Inn of the Snow Leopard, built in the form of a hunting lodge. Last month the boys were gathering at the Snow Leopard to sip their pastis, discuss business conditions, and wait for the tribesmen on their way down from the hills with their annual offering of confiture (jam), the local nickname for opium. Most of the boys have a Mediterranean origin: Couscous, a wiry North African; Carlo the Corsican; a Eurasian called Moitie Gnakouey; and a clutch of characters of vaguely French antecedents-Petit Pere, La Seche Noire (the Black Cigarette), Le Gorille Gris (the Grey Gorilla...
Under Gallegos, the party maintained its headlong drive for reform. A.D. Congressmen railroaded measures through Congress. Whenever there was opposition, A.D. masses, usually led by left-wingers, would jam the Plaza El Silencio and scream hatred at their enemies. By the end of 1948, when rumors began circulating that A.D. was planning to replace the army with a "peasants' militia," Pérez Jiménez and his brother officers rebelled. They cut down A.D. in mid-reform, arrested Gallegos, hounded Betancourt into exile, and began a new and bloody military dictatorship...
Billy watered them with two jam-packed meetings of some 6,000 in Antoinette Tubman Stadium, at which nearly 1,000 people, including President Tubman's daughter, made "decisions for Christ." Billy won his hearers' hearts when he reminded them, as he will remind all Africa, that Christ was neither white nor black, and that it was in Africa that the infant Jesus found refuge from Herod. And he gave Liberia a new catch phrase with his description of "Mr. Two-Dollars walking down the street" to illustrate how small is the value of a man when measured...
...game isn't over 'til the last fly is caught," and that "you got to give." By applying this world series weltanschauung to her own life, Miss McKenna persuades the young man to marry the girl, realizes that people count, and repays Wally by extricating him from a jam. All is saved; and SYMBOLICALLY (of course) the M on the neon MOTEL sign flashes back on; it had been off during the play...
Eleven years ago, the old gentleman was put out to academic pasture at Stanford University. At 76, he likes to sit about knitting afghan squares; he makes popovers and feijoa jam at his modest home on the Palo Alto campus. He owns one business suit and supports a rusty 1946 Ford on his pension of $3,200 a year...