Word: jam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Things Must Pass; 2 LPs plus a jam-session bonus LP; George Harrison (Apple). Georgeous in every...
...Lincolnshire on England's east coast. Bowlegged and bearded, he creeps through the high grass like some hungry predator, his burly hulk seemingly impervious to the chill wind knifing off the North Sea. Climbing a creek bank, one of the hunters stumbles. "Watch yer don't jam yer moozle in the mood," warns Thorpe. In the lifting darkness, the hunters flush a pair of teal. Thorpe takes no notice. His quarry is not duck but the prized pink-footed goose. Positioning the hunters along a flyway, Thorpe raises his nose and sniffs the wind. His squinty blue eyes...
Queen's Justice. On the other hand, the jam-up also allows knowing criminals to negotiate with harried prosecutors for a reduction of the charges in return for a guilty plea that will save the busy courts the time and expense of a trial. A 1968 survey of 136 accused muggers showed that 62% of them used such "plea bargaining" to get minuscule sentences for misdemeanors like petty larceny, which, strictly speaking, they did not commit. Moreover, a plea-bargained sentence often amounts to the time already served while waiting for trial. Mayor John Lindsay recently likened all this...
...whispering already sounds more like shouting, as Malta's tiny air force recently learned. Although they fly thousands of miles away from the U.S., the Maltese pilots found themselves in an almost daily radio jam-up because airliner controllers in Atlanta, Ga., were broadcasting on their frequency. Nor is the problem peculiar to the West. Only last week the Soviets complained bitterly about interference by illegal, amateur radio operators-"hooligans" who fill the air with "garbage." In one recent instance, the Soviet Ministry of Communications said, radio hams were so disruptive that controllers at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport...
...freeway system and Ralph Williams used-car lots, one suspects that Tod Hackett's apocalyptic vision in Day of the Locust would have been a mammoth car pile-up rather than "The Burning of Los Angeles." (Instead, Godard has provided us with the end-of-the-world traffic jam in his 1968 Weekend...