Word: jam
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More funny, and also more sad, is Petty's belief in the competence of American government officials. Whenever he is confronted with another piece of the government's insanity, he assumes there must be a reason. He hears about an American airplane designed to jam communications prior to an attack by other U.S. aircraff, and remarks...
...must confess that I find this a little strange, as I have always heard that American nuclear weapons were for defence only and, if you've been attacked, you would not need to jam communications as the enemy would undoubtedly expect retaliation. Still, I am sure there is an explanation that would not occur to simple souls like...
...blank-box modernism--perhaps out of principle but perhaps also because he could not dream of bridling his ferocious drive to invent and surprise. He seems to create buildings with the spirit other architects might bring to an amusement park. His work at its best is lyrical and joyously jam-packed, smart and sensuous, like a Nabokov story. He believes buildings should even be erotic. In the first of two shops he designed for Schul- lin jewelers in Vienna--a plush, narrow space with an irregular fissure in the gleaming facade--the allusion seems downright genital...
Rubin had to work out of a jam of her own making in the second, after giving up a leadoff triple to MIT pitcher--and cleanup hitter--Lou Jaudura. The drive, a high liner to right center, was cut off in the gap by center-fielder Mary Paul, who pegged the ball back in to keep the runner from scoring...
Almost 40 fewer undergraduates will live in jam-packed Mather House next year, making it 'he only House to see a significant population drop under the College's new crowding redistribution plan, according to statistics released yesterday...