Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which meets in the Manhattan apartment of Bernard Gabriel, a nontimid concert pianist. Once a week for twelve merciless minutes, Lawson sang before an audience of 30 other "timid souls," who stared glassily, milled about, rang bells, booed. When he bowed for applause, they shouted that he was a ham. After a month of sweating it out, Lawson was ready to resume his career...
...horrified him. These mushroom cities swarmed with the world's adventurers, who swam in alcohol and commonly bid up to $100 (plus three cases of champagne) for one night with a prostitute. The invaders also overran the countryside, tapping the rocks with their greedy little prospector's ham mers and dazzling the Boer farmers with sovereigns...
TIME'S telescoped nouns -"socialite," "radiorator," "guesstimate" - were similarly coined to get one word to do the work of two or more. This kind of economy led us to use the "&" symbol in such stock combinations as "safe & sane," "ham & eggs," "husband & wife," each of which, as sense goes, is practically one word...
...sick even in bumpy air (normal: 7½%). ¶Eating foods with lots of carbohydrates improves resistance to "blackouts" caused by lack of oxygen at high altitudes. Reason: it reduces the body's oxygen requirements. Moral: high flyers should stoke up on bread and potatoes rather than ham & eggs...
...This would be so easy to ham and fake and gag to make a "good layout." Above all else it will be an honest story...