Word: jamb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front door. To the Chicago Tribune, which he praised for its "accurate, fair and balanced account," Hanrahan gave "exclusive" photographs that the newspaper said showed a hole in the front door made by a 12-gauge shotgun slug, a bullet-riddled bathroom door and two holes in the backdoor jamb made by shots fired by Panthers inside the building...
...Jamb, long-lost deacon and husband of the minister's daughter...
...Yamb-Jamb is strangely drawn into the curious life of this Utopian haven where time seems to have stopped just before the Industrial Revolution, and where in effect it stands still for two weeks every year (the no man's time of the title). The inhabitants of this intellectualized Glocca Morra all work at handicrafts, and their fundamentalismcum-science theology seems to. be a mixture of Billy Graham and Albert Einstein. Bruno himself turns out to be a mystical exponent of this theology. He claims to remember all of human history as if it were his biography...
...pads of cartilage that lie between the thigh and shinbone (see diagram), was torn and rolled back in a tight wad. This explained why Namath had not been able to straighten his leg completely: just as a folded newspaper stuck between a door and its jamb will keep the door ajar, so the ball of cartilage kept Na-math's knee hinge from swinging all the way as he tried to extend his leg. The X rays showed no other damage-only a small cyst, of no importance...