Word: jam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into the city during the previous four weeks, or seized in a series of insurgent raids against at least three police stations. One of these preliminary attacks, according to a Western diplomat who witnessed it, was launched by people in a housing complex uphill from a station in the Jam-almena area in the southwest part of the city. A number of the residents started shooting down at the building. As the police ran out to see what was happening, they were picked off one by one; at least five policemen were killed and 40 injured...
...icemen controlled play during the last 30 minutes with crisp passes and tenacious forechecking. Although Harvard played without defensemen Mitch Olson (flu) and Scott Sangster (leg injury), the blueliners managed to avoid the jam-ups in front of the cage that had plagued past outings...
Perfect execution has never been Crazy Horse's aim, but their pounding and buzzing are ideal for Young's meandering, jam session-like electric productions. The foursome strut through a sterling performance of "When You Dance I Can Really Love" to open the second set, and they render "The Loner" with equal abandon. Young sings of realm far away from the serenity of the Sugar Mountain, of people who are no longer children...
...course, affected men as well as women, and perhaps in some respects, more than women--not to speak of the children. If we can live through the next years of nuclear weapons peril, and the dangers within this country of civil strife--what I sometimes think of as traffic jam litigious democracy--I can envisage benign futures which some wings of the women's movement foreshadow with their combined interest in nurturing the oncoming population of children and tough-minded realism about contemporary affairs...