Word: jam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shilling bus fare and a shilling telephone call, and we would have to pay for them out of a 10-shilling pound," he declared. In Leicester, he evoked the specter of "the poor, the penniless and the housewives" facing across-the-board price boosts?milk up twopence a pint, jam up 8 pence a pound, sausage up 9 pence, coal up £2 10 shillings...
...demonstrate another shade of citizen-serving thought. To provide "vital contact with a natural environment which is close" the club will develop Lovell's Island for hiking, arts and crafts work and other activities. Certainly anyone who's spent a hot two hours in a Sunday-in-July traffic jam should be enthusiastic about this project...
...suspicious, xenophobic, obsessed with pinching their pennies and palping their livers. They are only part of a larger Paris, drawn with fearful and totally remorseless accuracy, which becomes a tawdry circle of hell. The French whom Shirley meets are all impossibly rude: "We wanted to give you beans and jam for dinner, but my wife refuses to do American cooking," says Philippe's best friend, welcoming Shirley to his house for the first time. They file everything away in loony little mechanical categories they call logic. They are incapable of generosity or any human warmth. They believe that...
...chicks put on some of their music, but they were restless. Flex wanted to know why all of 'em didn't go up to the Square, Spider, he nodded approval and took out his comb to pretty up. But Rocco had to come in case there was a jam. Rocco was mean-looking. So they headed for the Square, and they told the chicks they could come along...
...Black people, moving in fifty cities simultaneously and collectively-that's where nationalism comes in-against General Motors with a work slow-down can jam America's biggest industry-its auto industry. China can't do that. Cuba can't do that, of course. Russia can't do it. The European Common Market can't do it. That's a helluva lot of power if you realize that you've got that power...