Word: ham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wine & a Chorus. After the last rock barrier fell last week, the weary tunnel diggers joined high officials and journalists in a gala celebration over a huge buffet of salami, ham rolls, petits fours, 200 bottles of French champagne and 450 bottles of Italian wine. High and happy, one French worker improvised a dance with an Italian driller who poured wine and mineral water over him as others sang and clanked empty bottles in accompaniment...
...James is still too short to sit down behind them, he has already surpassed his father as a drummer. On his television debut he appeared with his mother to play Caravan, treated his listeners to a long solo break that sounded like Krupa. "He's a great little ham," said the station's delighted program director, who stole time from Lionel Hampton's band to make room for James...
...Gulbenkian sought to force BBC to turn over a recording of a 1959 interview in which he complained that the administrators of his father's estate were withholding a part of his inheritance. Barely pausing to eat, Gulbenkian lunched daily in a court anteroom on caviar canapes, truffled ham laced with port, cutlets in aspic and glazed duckling, Belgian raspberries and Italian peaches-eased down with whisky and lager. Between mouthfuls, Nubar explained: "I do this to keep up my spirits." When judgment was reserved, the natty trencherman rolled away in the London taxi rebuilt to his taste...
...Port Stanley (pop. 1,480). The fish flies swarmed, and the rickety Stork Club Ballroom had just disgorged 800 jazz fans. By 2:25 a.m., all 23 bandsmen had clambered aboard the big silver, red and white bus, followed by Bandleader Stan Kenton carrying a cardboard carton with 30 ham sandwiches. Somebody snapped on the switch of a blue light that signified drinking time, and the bus began to roll...
...dish which Milty ought to know it itself about as "Authentic" as Dr. Fred Schwarz's Christian Crusade. And this is not to mention, of course, the Kishke (15 cents) or the "Break-the-House Breakfast Special," which offers orange juice, three eggs, three strips of bacon or ham, home fries, toast and two cups of coffee for 99 cents. Or the free bowls of pickles and potato chips on every table. Or even the Chicken-in-a in-a-Basket (85 cents...