Word: jam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Drago had come on in the seventh inning with a man on first and none out. He struck out pinch-hitter Billy Williams and then escaped the jam when Tommy Harper, running on a hit-and-run play, was doubled off first base as Bill North lined to Lynn in center field...
...urban demonstrator: the citizens' band radio. When local officials realized that elusive troublemakers had been keeping track of the cops as well as each other through these inexpensive two-way sets, they struck back in kind. They obtained a powerful transmitter of their own and used it to jam CB channels with loud signals whenever the chatter indicated that rioters were on the move...
...towns of Ruidoso and Ruidoso Downs, located in the bone-dry Sacramento Mountains, across the state line from El Paso. Every Labor Day weekend the population of these sleepy communities soars from 5,000 to 35,000 as quarter-horse fanatics swarm in by Cadillac and Continental Mark IV, jam the local airstrip with private jets, and fill every hotel room within a radius of 70 miles. Experience has taught the owners of bars and nightspots to hire armed guards to prevent gun fights...
...introductory meeting. The freshman avant garde will turn out en masse for this meeting. Because of a lack of interest and a general overproduction of shows freshmen can advance fast in Harvard dramatic circles. But most likely half the group that is kneeling on the theater rug in this jam-packed meeting is there simply to sign up to be ushers and get into the productions for free...
...there is no campground, oasis or hotel on their route, passengers go without bathing. Each morning after breakfasting and making their beds, they resume their seats in the bus for another ten hours on the road. Only two meals a day are included: tea or coffee, bread, butter and jam for breakfast and "quality German cooking"-all canned-for supper. Passengers must use the same sheets for the duration of the trip and, on journeys through remote areas, be prepared-as a German woman put it-to "sleep in our own dirt." One tall tourist found the beds so cramped...