Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minority Rule. In Burlington, N.C., after a jury decided that Lacy Allison was not the man who stole David Latham's 16-lb. ham, unconvinced Judge Luther Hamilton ordered Allison to give it back anyway...
Said Frank Sarantos, genial owner of the club, "We may not be able to hold prices down much longer. They want your right arm for a piece of ham these days." With a deft stroke of his pen he marked up ham and egg sandwiches from 35 to a tentative 40 cents. "All but a few sandwiches will stay the same," he continued, adding that he would await further moves by his competitors. Normally a power behind the scenes, Sarantos had appeared during the current crisis in Washington to take personal command of his forces...
...through his thick-lensed glasses, he tried wearily to turn aside the charges of his Partisan accusers. Seven hours a day, for three days, fortified by a breakfast of rum and tea, the bushy-bearded Chetnik answered their hammering questions and returned to his cell for a dinner of ham & cabbage, topped off by tall schooners of beer. But neither rum nor beer nor the efforts of two of Yugoslavia's best defense lawyers could lift his pessimism. "I wish you wouldn't torture me with rhetoric," Mihailovich begged the court. "I am a soldier too weary...
...Canterbury (Roman Durovernum), many feet below the leveled shopping district, the diggers found a 3rd-Century mosaic floor, as perfect as when its Roman builders set down their tools 1,700 years ago. A more elaborate floor (see cut) showed up in Low Ham, Somerset, complete with prancing mosaic horsemen, naked ladies, and amorous Roman warriors...
...Army was not appeased. The ham-handed amateurs, who had blundered into crime because a corporal could not be moderate in his looting, would be court-martialed...