Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfairness of Politics. In the waiting room at Paris' Orly Airport, the Maharaja, toying with the remains of a ham sandwich, talked to the press. "Why should I take any money from my country's treasury?" he asked. A gold and ruby bracelet glittered on his chubby wrist as he lit a Dunhill Cedros de Luxe. "I have no idea what is behind the charge . . . India is going from Socialist to Communist, as you know. But I suppose we shouldn't say that, should...
...want center cuts of pork chops; you are willing to pay 10 to 15? a pound more for them . . . You pay $1 to $1.10 a pound for center cuts of ham because you won't buy the end cuts that I am glad to trim up for you for 57 to 69? a pound. They are just as tender, have as much flavor, and are actually leaner (after I have trimmed them), but your husband makes too much money for you to use them . . . A chuck roast can be cooked just as tender and is every bit as flavorful...
Where were the 5,000 steaks, the 2,500 lamb chops, the 2,500 Ibs. of ham that were supposed to arrive with the U.S. team? The team's special chef (borrowed from Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel) didn't know. Back in the kitchen the cooks spoke five languages, and he couldn't make him self understood in any of them...
...Ham-handed Joe Curran, skipper of the C.I.O.'s big National Maritime Union, had won almost every tussle in his long struggle against Communist control. But it was like fighting a hydra: Joe had to wrestle the Communists and fellow travelers one by one, and every time he pinned one down, another bobbed up. Another trouble was that the Commies were so strongly entrenched that they usually got themselves re-elected to the key union jobs...
...FORTUNE, This Week and the Saturday Evening Post, which also ran the illustrated (see cut) ads. It also drew a shocked cry of "bad taste" from Advertising Age and protests from the New Yorker, LIFE, and other magazines which refused to run other Springmaid copy until such phrases as "ham hamper, lung lifter" and "rumba aroma" were deleted. Not in months had advertising tittups caused such a tizzy...