Word: jam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late-afternoon traffic jam clogged the Via Nazionale outside, Archbishop Coggan spoke challengingly to a congregation of Roman Catholic and Anglican clergy from the gothic pulpit of the American Episcopal Church of St. Paul. In announcing his desire for a shared communion now, the Archbishop argued that the churches face "an evangelistic task whose size escalates with the multiplying millions. 'Talk to us about reconciliation,' a skeptical world says to us, 'when you yourselves are reconciled.' " Noting that in many areas of the world Anglicans and Catholics already drink from the same chalice, Coggan asked...
Musically, the Grateful Dead have always been most skilled at their own kind of jam. At each song's end, they break down the rhythms and patterns into an elaborate, jazz-like chaos and then reassemble the component parts into another song. These acid-jazz jams comprise some of their best music, like "Dark Star," "Walk Me Out in the Morning Dew," and "The Other." Dead concerts unfold like four-hour medleys as each song gradually gives way to the next. The great theme of the band is departure and return--the trip, metaphorically or literally. Not only does their...
Stewart retired the next 11 Columbia batters without a hit, getting out of a key jam in the seventh when Columbia had men on second and third with two outs. But the Lions got their insurance run in the top half of the eight, courtesy of a long home run to left field by Backus...
...then addresses his manuscript. He tires rapidly and is usually taken home by midafternoon. Burger has become solicitous of Douglas' welfare, attending small social events staged by Douglas and his fourth wife, Cathy, 33, and sending over gifts of vintage wine and tasty apricot and orange jam put up by Burger himself...
...longer the issue. The old Plains is already dead. Carter T shirts ($4.50), Amy Carter birdhouses ($8), Jimmy Carter "Happy Mouth" bottle openers ($4), Plains coloring books ($1) and the "Georgia Peanut Presidential Handbag" ($15) are now the chief stock of almost every shop in town. Outsiders so jam the small stores that Plains residents have taken to driving ten miles to Americus to do the simplest food shopping. Although the state has installed Plains' first traffic light, massive traffic tie-ups occur regularly. Five tour outfits, one of them partially owned by Billy Carter, now operate in Plains...