Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last February, Joe Curran was sold a bill of goods. The name of the goods: the Committee for Maritime Unity. From a trade-union point of view the idea seemed fine; C.M.U. would be the united front of all maritime and longshoremen unions. Ham-handed Joe Curran took his big East Coast National Maritime Union into the group, lined it up with five other much smaller seamen's unions and Harry Bridges' big West Coast International Longshoremen...
...hospital. The doctors made him eat poached eggs and he began to recover. Then he rebelled against the doctors. During the Thanksgiving holidays he drove 200 miles to his farm at McRae, Ga. to get some fresh air, healthful exercise and belly filling vittles. He ate fried chicken, ham and grits with red gravy and plenty of hot biscuits. Then he went out with a dog and gun and hunted birds. He drove back to Atlanta and collapsed again...
Many a money-heavy citizen would spend the holidays in jammed, glittering Florida resorts. To Cartoonist Ham Fisher, creator of Joe Palooka, Christmas in Miami Beach would be sun-kissed and expensive. He would sleep late in his Roney Plaza room, golf at the swank La Gorce Country Club, be host at an eggnog party at the Lord Tarleton Hotel. In the evening he would invite a crowd of cronies to a dinner party at the Copacabana Club...
Sloppy passing, poor dribbling, and occasional loafing marked the Freshmen's playing and only the fight shown by two second-stringers, Jim Ham and Cliff Crosby, prevented them from losing...
...flying Freshman team. Captain John Rockwell, who has totaled a tidy 53 points in two contests, will pair with Frank Lionette at the forwards, Pat Dailey is at center, and Dick Covey will team with Dick Reifsnyder or Chuck Brynteson at the guards. PROBABLE LINEUPS HARVARD TUFTS Nobio lf Ham Page rf Antonelli Hauptfuhrer c Kolankiewicz Marlaschin lg Cooney Davis rg Tryder