Word: jammed
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Some scenes reverberated in the memories of those who had been attacked. White motorists could only jam down their accelerators, duck their heads and try to speed away from the fusillade of bricks, bottles and bullets aimed at their cars. "There's one, that's a white one!" a black screamed as a yellow Toyota passed an intersection. The driver spun his wheels frantically in an oil slick before escaping the approaching mob. Recalled white Motorist Jim Davis: "The police had put up a roadblock. I couldn't get around it. I went into a U-turn...
...mound, Ron's intensity is unparalleled. When he gets into a jam, he takes it personally. He loves to win and hates even to be in the dugout on the days after a loss...
...skaters on the streets of New York City. They sloshed to work in the morning through ankle-deep puddles and returned home that evening in a tropical downpour. Cars and school buses clogged the streets. At one point, police in Manhattan narrowly averted a "grid lock," the ultimate traffic jam, in which no motor vehicle can move in any direction. An angry bicyclist bit a policeman; an upset motorist tried to run down a policewoman. It was the ninth day of the transit strike, and the élan that New Yorkers had shown in the first week of the walkout...
...least 20%. But Thatcher expects her people to support her in the effort to turn the economic indicators around. "We did not promise you instant sunshine," she told a Tory group. "We pointed out over and over again that a nation cannot accelerate downhill for years, then jam on the brakes and suddenly return to prosperity as though the past had never happened...
...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...