Word: hammed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helpless to handle his neighbors, his job or even his flirtatious wife ("I saw a kiss. I saw tongues"). Jews, of course, have no priority on black humor. One of its darkest stars, Terry Southern, a Texas gentile, has been operating successfully in the black for years with ham-handed satires on pornography (Candy), nuclear war (Dr. Strangelove) and money and morality (The Magic Christian...
...Ham 9 is to have unlimited enrollment, and will be taught in two lectures and one section every week...
...researchers' benefactor was James M. Jacobs, who owns J August Co. on the Square and a great deal of expensive ham radio equipment tucked away in his home on a hill in Brookline. Begining the morning after the assault, he spoke daily with officials of the hospital in Cuenca where the victims were being treated, and with the American Embassy in Quito. Every morning he connected the home phones of the Nortons and Paynters into his 4000-mile radio hookup, and they were able to follow the progress of the victims as if they were in the neighborhood hospital...
...provided, on at least one occasion, the only surviving contact with a Latin American nation. After the 1964 revolution in Bolivia, the new government closed all the cable offices and grounded all planes. But the three American television networks set up temporary shop in the home of a ham in Jacobs's Latin American network. Their dispatches were pumped into Brookline, and Jacobs graciously handed them over to the waiting newsmen...
Jacobs, for example, sitting 4000 miles away, asked a man in Quito to put through a call to Guayaquil, about 100 miles away. The ham replied that a call like that would probably take days to complete...