Word: jammed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mess. Despite a growth rate of about 8% this year, the bulk of the country's 40 million people remain desperately poor, with an average income of under $300 (vs. $2,700 for Israel). In the past year, thousands of peasants have abandoned the land to jam into the already swollen cities in hope of sharing in a peace-bred boom. Thus unemployment is soaring at a time when inflation is hovering above...
...circle the stage, his blind tom-cat to her broken-winged sparrow, until Tom lowers his tail, breaks the silence in order to regain the peace of their barren thicket. A breakable pane hangs between them always, a horse-drawn past and jet-lured future caught in the same jam of traffic but still enveloped in the mist and mystery of dreams...
...hundred and fifty miles past Grand Junction, past the last house, I hit a traffic jam. Under normal circumstances this would have been completely unexceptional, but this was nowhere. A quarter of a mile ahead, the worst of reasons was lying moaning on the ground, a victim of a three-car accident...
Still, Burger's own clerks argue that the Chief is a charming and thoughtful man, given to bringing them small favors like homemade jam and freshly baked bread prepared by Burger himself. The Chief has been particularly considerate to Douglas since the old liberal retired from the court in 1975; he has called on him regularly, and personally supervised the construction of a ramp into the court for Douglas' wheelchair. (Douglas, a brilliant but acerbic man, was less kind to Burger while still on the bench. In conversations with his clerks, he referred to Burger...
Bibby's replacement on the pitching mound, righthander Don Robinson, did not take long to get into a jam. The Birds' Doug DeCinces slashed a single up the middle to lead off the bottom of the fifth...