Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, West-tinghouse Electric Corp. treated the press to cocktails, Florida pineapple, breast of chicken on Virginia ham, baked Alaska. As a savory, it brought in 1) its postwar appliance models and 2) a brand new president. Most impressive among the new products was a "laundromat" which automatically fills itself, washes clothes, rinses and drys them, empties, then cleans itself...
...incumbent since Taft. There is no 'crackdown' in his system. Even those who have the hatchet out for Truman . . . acknowledge his determined honesty. . . ." There were those who sought to smear him, said Considine, but Harry Truman was a man's kind of man, as American as ham & eggs...
...Wiggle. Soon after V-J day, the Signal Corps put Lieut. Colonel John H. DeWitt, a former radio "ham," in charge of a project called "Diana" (goddess of the moon, the wood, childbirth). No radically new apparatus was used, only a modified version of the standard "SCR-271" radar set, operating on its regular, fairly high frequency of 112 megacycles. The key play was in not sending out thousands of "pulses" of radio energy per second, which would not have allowed enough time in between for the moon echo to return; instead, Belmar sent out only one half-second pulse...
...Laughton's fussy, flouncy, ham-Hamp-denish curtain speech at a closing performance of Cyrano...
...rubdown ends the session, but the grim shadow of Dr. Graham lingers on through dinner. Noticeably smaller on Harry Truman's plate are the once-hearty portions of his favorites-steak, ham, fried chicken, and custard...