Word: jampack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...antitotalitarianism that has swept over the Americas has stirred widespread grumbling in Paraguay. Heightening the discontent is the fact that political prisoners jampack police headquarters and overflow into two concentration camps. Torture has been common. Youth Leader Rodolfo Serafini, emerging from 67 days' imprisonment, showed newsmen welts crisscrossing his back...
...idea, of course, was to give the glamorous Dietrich back to the millions who once adored her on the screen-and who still jampack the nightclubs she plays in. But Director Samuel Taylor has tactlessly insisted that the lady (who now admits to being fiftyish) concentrate on sex, and has largely overlooked the possibilities of her sophisticated comedy talents. The moviegoer, as a result, is sometimes painfully aware that the siren is a bit rusty; yet he is seldom allowed to realize that the belle, even with diminished resonance, still rings...
...doctors tactlessly took credit for being right in their "original diagnosis." After staving off suspicious newsmen until midafternoon, matronly, silver-haired Anne Wheaton was red-eyed; she quivered with strain when the medical report was finally released at her third press conference of the day. To the jampack in Hagerty's office she said: "I will have no comment on its contents." Under the jackhammer questioning of men desperate to get the story straight, she did, in fact, hazard comment of harmful ineptitude ("That is a form of heart attack, as I understand it. . . . 'Cerebral' does have...
...against the intellectual current prevailing at the seminary during the past two decades. These have been the "neo-orthodox" years of theological through-the-looking-glass, when the wildest radicals were the most Biblically conservative, and the mark of old fuddy-duddyism was a relaxed attitude toward dogma. Students jampack the classes of Reinhold Niebuhr to hear that man is not good and never will be, and that humans must be content to strive for conditional and imperfect ends...
...years and God has been good to me," cried Tobey from behind the green eyeshade he had clamped on his long, gleaming forehead. "I am a poor man and always will be. But there is one thing I am. I am a free man . . ." Tobey wept a bit, the jampack audience at Foley Square burst into applause, O'Dwyer stared moodily at the floor, and the Kefauver investigation returned to the business at hand...