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Word: hammed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Volcano. The show was originated and is written by Kazuo Kikuta, 46, whose own life reads like a soap opera. Born in Formosa, he was taken from his parents (described in the newspapers as "ogres") at the age of three, because they kept him trussed up like a ham and suspended from a beam in the living room. By the time he was twelve, Kikuta had gone through six foster fathers; the last one sold him to an Osaka pharmacist for $50. Escaping, Kikuta finally made his way to Tokyo, landed a job as assistant scriptwriter for a third-rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Tokyo Suds | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the job seeker from Wisconsin knew what to do. Digging into the groceries, he started to get dinner. He found some frozen pork chops, which he broiled (he is not looking for a cook's job), a fine Maryland ham, a Wisconsin cheese, some bourbon, some seltzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Oak & the Ivy | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

Curtis C. Kaufman '54, an amateur radio ham, last month wrote a post card in Russian to Radio Moscow asking for its schedule of broadcasts to America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Politely Questions Moscow Radio, Does Better Than Diplomats | 3/5/1954 | See Source »

Winners in the Reds' shutout, played at the University Club, were Ed Rose, Ham Forester, Eliot Hawkins, Bob Harpley, and Landon Thomas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman and Two Varsity B Squash Teams Take Contests | 2/18/1954 | See Source »

...Washington's Mayflower Hotel one morning last week gathered a group of 600. The President of the United States was there. So were the Vice President, the Chief Justice of the United States, Cabinet members, Congressmen, diplomats, businessmen. They ate a sturdy breakfast (grapefruit, scrambled eggs, sausage, ham, hominy grits and gravy). Then the chairman of the meeting, Republican Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas, called order, and the annual prayer breakfast of the International Council for Christian Leadership got down to its purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Breakfast in Washington | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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