Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aeronauts jerked the strings on their sandbags. Amid a shower of sand the big orange ball went bounding over the treetops, to land 50 kilometers away. "Vive la Suisse!" cried the crowd. Then France's first entry, ample, blonde Mlle. Paulette Weber, sailed off alone, equipped only with ham sandwiches and a bottle of rum "to keep warm, in case we should soar to the cold upper air." The band blared La Marseillaise...
...Yard called in entomology experts of the British Museum. Who might have engineered this stunning crime? The answer was as obvious as cherchez la femme: only a person with a consuming love of lepidoptera. Last week the mystery was cleared up. In a West Ham court, Colin William Wyatt, a handsome, 38-year-old, onetime Cambridge ski champion, confessed all. Why had he done it? While he was in Australia (with the Air Force), his marriage had gone on the rocks. To forget, he had plunged into a hobby he had pursued since...
...MacLeod, a sergeant major in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals stationed at Aklavik, built the transmitter with odds & ends from a ham set, a few parts scrounged from Army discards and about $100 worth of equipment that he bought himself. He talked Sergeant Jack Willis into being the station's announcer because Willis, a Nova Scotian, could pronounce Eskimo names like "Plluluk" (pronounced Pell-oo-look) without a bobble. Last winter they set up their equipment in the second floor of Aklavik's Signals Station, and by December they were broadcasting with 30-watt power...
...According to the Bible, all the races of man are descended from Ham, Shem and Japheth, the three sons of Noah: from Shem come the Semites (including Jews and Arabs). At the U.N., Arabs often call the Jews "our cousins...
...usual, readers must grant Author White (The Sword in the Stone, Mistress Mas ham's Repose) a basic, whimsical conceit. This time the Archangel Michael slithers down the chimney of an Irish farm where Mr. White is boarding, warns of an imminent flood and appoints the author as a latter-day Noah. The idea is pretty thin to start with, and it is not even corn-fed from there on. The building of the Ark, for instance, is a nail-by-nail account that only a carpenter might care to follow. Author White, who wrote the book in County...