Word: jammed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle of 1952. For five days after his arrival in Canton, he stormed across more than 1,000 miles of South Dakota's rolling plains, Dantesque bad lands and towering Black Hills. He made 24 speeches to 50,000 attentive South Dakotans; almost every hall he entered was jam-full. In a flat Ohio voice he said the kind of things most Midwestern Republicans hoped to hear. He said he was against universal military training, high taxes and expensive foreign aid; he was for farm-price supports, flood control and Douglas MacArthur. He made a big vow: "I promise...
...wife of a conscientious doctor, I, too, am shocked by the practices revealed in your article. While hoping that "the guilty doctors will mend their ways," and checking on them as if they were little boys with jam on their faces, can the California Medical...
Caught in the middle of the ten-boat floot. Bishop successfully managed to tack his way out of the jam, eventually ending a solid fourth. Williams, though, placed second again. Because the Cup is awarded on the basis of a two-day performance, the Purple was thus able to capture the trophy...
During the war years, Laughton was restless. He tried to lose himself in his collection of art (Renoir, Cezanne, Utrillo), and in organizing classical jam sessions. Then he began dropping into U.S. Army hospitals, where he read aloud from Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Aesop, Thomas Wolfe, the Bible. Says Laughton: "The men in the hospital, unlike the people in the theaters, when they didn't understand said so out loud and if I didn't understand either I learned to admit it . . . And when I did understand and they did not, I knew I wasn't doing...
...Thank God for Winston Churchill.' But I do now. We need a man of courage and vision. We are in the worst jam we have ever been in, and unless every man, woman and child wakes up, we will go completely down the drain...