Word: hammed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scampering down a campaign parade route, shouting "Hey! Hey! Hey! Hello there!" He is at ease at dinner with Vice President Humphrey, Walter Lippmann and Mrs. Christian Herter, and just as comfortable with Negro friends eating "soul food," a Porgy orgy consisting of pig's feet, ham, fried fish, cornbread and greens?to which Brooke sometimes adds champagne. He was such an energetic salesman of bonds for Israel that a high school in that country has been named...
Though Inter-Continental also operates sumptuous establishments on such beaten paths as Geneva, Dublin, Frankfurt and Vienna, most of its 36 hotels have altered the skyline of such places as Abidjan, Amman, Bali, Bangkok, Djakarta, Monrovia and Dacca. The formula-an oasis in the ham-and-egg-less desert-has proved so successful that last week workmen were busy with major expansions of six InterContinental hotels. Completely new additions to the chain were rising at Lahore and Rawalpindi in Pakistan, Nicaragua's Managua, and Auckland, N.Z. This month the company will break ground in Manila, and architects are drafting...
...small Roman Catholic college called St. John's, on Rose Hill in The Bronx. A few years later, New York State gave the school twelve muskets for protection against threatened attacks by anti-Catholic Know-Nothings. The antique weaponry was a good symbol of the old Ford-ham-primarily a school for the children of Irish and Italian immigrants, as much concerned with preserving their faith against the forces of secularism as with promoting academic excellence...
Author William Manchester, stricken with malaria, enters New York's Mount Sinai Hospital. Out of sympathy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.) wires Manchester a prize ham. General Ky journeys incognito to Hong Kong to have his eves westernized...
...assembly in Miami last week threw into one arena the two divergent operational concepts of modern-day Christianity: Graham's concern for the individual soul and the council's stress on involvement with the world. To many, these approaches have seemed opposites; the mere fact of Gra ham's invitation and acceptance was a bit of an eyebrow raiser. But Graham neatly managed to synthesize his own modified views and the council's: he said that social action is essential - and that it must proceed from genuine "spiritual motivation...