Word: jam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When one of the female jocks would make her case for women's sports, some all-knowing basketball stud was quick to retort, "But babe, can you jam?" And so knowing that there were no organized pro women's leagues, and confident that Jimmy Connors could wipe the baseline with Chris Evert, we male jocks simply pursued our daily practice routines while snickering at the women who were trying to do pushups on their field...
...reporter's hat and coming up with fresh news. The most interesting section in Convention is that detailing the full story behind the rumors that Carter had at his disposal during the convention a communications system that not only could monitor other candidates' communication systems, but could also jam them if necessary. The system was devised with the aid and complicity of Jim Gammill '75, Carter convention co-ordinator, and killed at the last minute by more prudent advisers. But even this story partially was reported last November in the Times, and Reeves simply doesn't add much more. This...
...HEARTY. The metabolism works overtime when the body is exposed to cold. As the human's heat pump, the body has to be fueled-with food. In Maine logging camps, a typical meal consists of vegetable soup, baked beans, bread and jam, macaroni and cheese, ground-beef casserole, pancakes, spaghetti and meatballs, beef stew, fresh baking-powder biscuits, in no particular order. Somewhat more delicately, Julia Child girds for winter with bean soup, enriched with leftover beef or lamb stew or whatever, and home-baked bread. And long johns...
...that is?as sheer, unadorned spectacle?an interval unique. For 70 million Americans, life compresses to the diagonally measured size of a cathode ray tube. Work goes undone, play ceases too; telephones stop ringing, crime disappears, romance is delayed and, in all the land, there is just one traffic jam worthy of the title?on highways leading to the Super Bowl site. If it is not literally McLuhan's global village, the Super Bowl certainly is the national town, and all the inhabitants have gone to watch a game on the community screen...
CHESTER & LESTER (RCA). A pair of good ole boys click in a cheerful studio jam as Les Paul's familiar slipping, sliding notes trace a delicate web around Chet Atkin's crisp licks...