Word: ham
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...passengers are getting rowdy: "When are we stopping for doughnuts?" "I'll buy you lunch! I'll buy you a ham-and-cheese sandwich." The officers ignore the gibes. "We get one doughnut comment every day," says a good-natured Krajeski. "And we get offered bribes. One kid offered me a dollar to let him go, but he was special-ed." Says DiAngelo: "We try not to be too hard-ass. We try to keep the relationship open...
Carnesale and Putnam's tenures came in the aftermath of a particularly rocky period of expansion under Dillon Professor of Government Gra ham T. Allison. During Allison's tenure, theschool was accused of offering a Universityposition in exchange for a donation...
Only recently, at age 26, have I been introduced in a systematic way to the works of Western philosophers. It has been thrilling, and I am sad I did not know ham earlier. We have been playing with pebbles on the beach, while all the while the great ocean of truth lies ignored before us. Adam Cohen...
There are unquestionably many limitations inherent in musicals. They come off as the performance art of drama; legitimately disrespected because of their artistic fluff, but persistently attempted because they are fun to perform. A little Night Music looks like fun for the chorus who ham up a good farce, but mysteriously the main singers play unconvincingly with dramatic pathos to convey the piece's darker strains. The musical struggles between glib and somber moods, the latter superfluous and unsuited to this piece, creating stylistic tension that director Carolyn Rendell never succeeds in reconciling...
...China. The profit motive drives America's wish for relations with Vietnam. Anyone susceptible to the sentimental image of the U.S. and Vietnam as lion and lamb lying down together can be cured by a visit to the war museum in Saigon, where the propaganda about American atrocities is ham-handed and offensive, and where G.I. gear is sold at souvenir stands. A great deal of history stands between the U.S. and Vietnam, as between the U.S. and China. Ideology stands between us too. Communism is dead in both China and Vietnam, but authoritarianism thrives...