Word: jam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...catch a dispatcher's grating squawk through the static. "We got this radio system new since the Olympics," he boasts. "Now tourists can call for a taxi, and we come just like in other cities." At the skating rink where Torvill and Dean once carved perfection, the jam-packed crowd of children looks like it is having recess on an oil slick: hardly a child in Sarajevo had owned a pair of skates until the Olympic rinks were built, but they manage to stay upright, so far more on sheer enthusiasm than grace...
...rumors raced through the maze of jam-packed shanties like a burning fuse: a fleet of government vehicles had arrived to relocate all 60,000 residents of the settlement, and a squad of toughs had been brought in to add muscle to the operation. The rumors proved false, but by dawn, the men of Crossroads, a wretched black squatters' camp in the sand dunes just outside Cape Town, began blocking the roads around their shacks with makeshift barricades of logs, stones, oil drums, old tires and anything else they could find. Then they set the barriers ablaze...
...like that anymore. Five players, running up and down the court. Sure, no one can jam, but you do see behind-the-back passes, double-pump dipsy do shots and dead-eyed 20 footers...
Harvard's Houses, in both their overall character and quality of life, have never been the same, are not the same now, and been never be the same as long as North House is still a collection of former women's dorms, Mather House is a jam-packed 17-story basement, and Lowell House can offer its seniors single rooms...
...Barba has lots of company. A few years ago the only accessories travelers needed were some soft-sided bags to jam under the airplane seat and a voltage converter for foreign trips. These days voyagers are taking off with a cornucopia of helpful little gizmos for grooming, business, sports and safety...