Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jockey is trying or not. Like pro wrestlers, they can put on a great show ? lots of whip-waving and scuffling. (If they want to lose, all they need to do is loosen the reins an instant and let the horse's head drop, or run into a jam, or lose a few lengths on a turn...
...back. The occasion: their silver wedding anniversary. The King and Queen (and Princess Margaret) rode in a gold and crimson coach behind the household cavalry and full-dress Guards, helmeted and plumed, on jet horses. After them came a coach with Elizabeth and Philip. Salutes were fired; cheering crowds jam-packed the sidewalks...
...refurbished National Capitol, the government held rehearsals, while sightseers by the thousands crowded in to see the decorations. Hotels, pensiones and even some private dwellings were booked up for about 500 delegates and assistants, who will jam the 410-year-old Andean city (altitude...
...volunteers were prepared for semi-starvation by three months' good eating with a daily average of 3,492*calories. Then for six months they were fed two carefully rationed meals a day totaling 1,570 calories. Sample meals: pancakes, syrup, applesauce, cornbread and jam in the morning; potato soup, stew and potatoes in the evening...
...Jam Breaks. Last week, in the old India Office in London, the logjam broke after ten days of hard-driving pressure, stepped up by the Czech crisis. The Big Three of the West (the U.S., Britain and France) began the conference with a sensible and long-delayed step-admission of the Little Three (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg). The Benelux countries depend so closely on German industry that they insisted on a settlement. France yielded along the logical lines of compromise. The agreement in principle looks toward a Ruhr that will be politically part of Germany, but an international control...