Word: hamming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During most of his adult life, easygoing Earl S. Tupper, 40, has described himself as "a ham inventor and Yankee trader." By last week, one of his inventions-an unbreakable, flexible, shape-retaining plastic which can be moulded into all sorts of containers-was forcing him to temper the "ham" and drop the "trader" entirely...
Brute Force (Universal), a Mark Hellinger production, stars Burt Lancaster, but is not otherwise to be compared with Hellinger's The Killers. The Killers may have been hammy, but it was grade-A ham, so adroitly served up that the picture got on several of last year's ten-best lists. Brute Force is a prisoner of all the old jailbreak cliches. There is the decent but weak warden (Roman Bohnen) who can't control his mild but maniacal head guard (Hume Cronyn), a sadist who plays Wagner while softening up a prisoner with a rubber hose...
...President had put Biffle up to it. A number of Harry Truman's old friends from his Senate days were there. While they ate Arkansas ham, turkey, potato salad and cake adorned with small flags of Missouri and the U.S., the Senators kidded Harry Truman about his not being able to join them when they returned to the chamber for the afternoon's debates. Les Biffle suggested: Why didn't the President walk in and take his old seat? Harry Truman thought it was a fine idea...
There was no doctor on the atoll (pop. 60)-but there was a radio ham, Steve Barnes. Barnes went to work, finally tuned in an old friend and fellow ham, Joseph Bonsted, 6,000-miles away.in Audubon, NJ. Said Barnes: "Joe, there's been an accident here. Can you get a doctor?" The nearest doctor was operating in the Audubon Hospital. Surgeon Ralph W. Davis paused long enough in his operation to give some terse instructions: "Tourniquets, loosened every 20 to 30 minutes, plasma transfusions. No morphine; he may have a fractured skull...
Across 6,000 miles, Joe flashed the message. The anxious group on the atoll carefully followed the doctor's orders. A nurse on the island, Mrs. Robert Steed, though eight months pregnant, turned out to give the plasma transfusion. By that time, Radio-Ham Barnes was talking to surgeons attached to Hawaii's Hickam Field, getting more instructions. When a rescue plane and an Army surgeon arrived five hours later from Hickam, they found that Radioman Buster Bailey was still holding on. By nightfall he was resting comfortably in a Hawaiian hospital...