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Word: hammed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...form in front of the austere, dimly lit shop. A panel truck pulls up to the rear entrance, and two burly workers, their white smocks spattered with red stains, deliver their precious cargo: a day's supply of meat. Within three hours, the choicest cuts-pork chops, ham, boneless beef-will be gone. The late arrivals will have to make do with sausage, soup bones or chicken. Or perhaps nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fed Up with the Food Fight | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...another, more public afternoon in Mocksville, N.C., at a Masonic picnic, Helms is not asked to account for his future. His speech is scheduled between Ferris wheel rides and an all-you-can-eat feast of baked ham and lemon pie. Supporters mob him all day. He is happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Right, March!: Jesse Helms | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Although video freaks may think of themselves as space-age ham operators, innocently tuning in on whatever signals bounce about in the ether, satellite programmers consider them electronic buccaneers and mutter darkly about "tapping," "free-lunching" and "unauthorized reception." Among the toughest in its stance has been Time Inc.'s Home Box Office, whose chief counsel, John Redpath, says the company is considering "all possible alternatives to stop" unofficial signal reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Earth Stations: Sky in the Pie | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...Examples: sugar would rise from 16? to 60? per lb.; ham from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Have a Soothing Cup of Tea | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

...yourself.' But with us they just figured a way so their young boys could try for some black pussy and so their snotty bitches can look big in front of a whole line of black women. If I had said to you, 'Here, dog, have one of these ham sandwiches and some of this sweet bread,' you would have known right away I was white...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Bitter And No Sweet | 7/24/1981 | See Source »

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