Word: hammed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fitness and sexual joy were snapped up like so many peanuts at a corner bar. And when John Q. Public wasn't eyeing his calories as instructed by countless handbooks, he was spending more money on outrageously expensive fashions than the entire race of Bedouins since their descent from Ham. Gurus of this 'Me Decade' stressed the gratification of the individual--particularly themselves...
During a break, Adler can be seen mopping his brow. He is short of breath. "The trick is to get them relaxed," he puffs. "They've got to be taken out of the teacher-student relationship. Every good teacher has to be something of a ham...
Doing any things just seems to come naturally. Her eating habits are a prime example. She raided a friend's well-stocked refrigerator at 3 a.m. once, and downed five ham and cheese sandwiches, 12 candy bars, and 13 sweet rolls. Another time she ate 16 hamburgers at a House barbeque. And the 118-pounder once challenged a linebacker to an eating contest...
...their highways: those states' automobile death rates are respectively first and third highest in the U.S., several times greater than in 47-mile-long Rhode Island, for instance. In February, when a bill to institute a higher speed limit in Georgia was under debate, State Representative Benson Ham bitterly opposed the measure on accident-prevention grounds. Snapped Ham at one of his antagonists in the legislature: "I'm not surprised to see a funeral director speaking for this bill." The move was defeated. Police in many states enthusiastically support the lower limit. Says Maryland State Police Captain Milton...
April 13, 7:24 a.m.--Police investigated the theft of a 14-lb. ham, six pounds of cooked roast beef, and a ten-lb. salami from the Greenhouse Cafe. The thieves broke open a lock on a refrigerator to steal the food...