Word: hammed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardling ladder, Lanny Thomas, won his first, fourth and fifth games, but dropped the middle pair, for a 3 to 2 tally. Pete Milton, playing second man, lost only his second game, with a 3 to 1 score, and Ham Graven won all his games. Martin Heckschire and Art Ellison did not play...
...better under pressure than most," says Golfer Lloyd Mangrum, "because I'm a ham at heart. I'm also a gambler at heart, and I'll take a chance rather than play it safe. It's always better to be a winner." Mangrum was talking about golf's hottest current winning streak: five straight tournaments (in Australia and the U.S.) and close to $11,000 in prize money since November...
...included cinema's great and near great plus Parisienne Songstress Edith Piaf, Doris Duke, Queen Mother Nazli of Egypt, and Hotelman Conrad Hilton; 115 Cadillacs in the parking lot; five detectives hired to guard an estimated $2,000,000 worth of party jewelry; a 5 a.m. breakfast of ham & eggs and champagne; the tab for the night, which came...
Bachelor Smith's showplace home, high on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, became a gathering place for West Coast visiting bigwigs and intellectuals. To San Franciscans, Smith and the Chronicle were as inseparable as ham & eggs. Once 40,000 names on a petition urged him to run for mayor; unions and businessmen gave him their labor disputes to mediate. Paul Smith, who stands 5 ft. 8 in. tall, had an eleven-word explanation for his success: "I'm just a little squirt anxious to be a tough...
...Wireless club is an association of "ham" wireless operators. Members broadcast to other colleges and at times foreign countries only licensed operators and members of the Club are permitted to operate the Club's transmitter which is according to Domezi...