Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston and many another U.S. community where ham for Easter is a tradition, it was a hamless Easter. But thousands of German prisoners of war in the Boston area were luckier. The First Service Command served them ham at Easter Sunday supper...
...Congress had not listened very carefully to the nurses. If recruiting has failed, the nurses declared, it is due to many things and not all of them are women's lack of a sense of duty. Methods of recruiting, they said, are ham-handed and confused. Too many agencies are involved and no single agency is responsible...
Primo ("Old Satch") Carnera, hulking, ham-handed onetime world's heavyweight boxing champion (1933), was reported arrested in northern Italy, then freed under close Gestapo surveillance. U.S. sports fans raised their eyebrows at the story, which made out hapless Primo an agile hero: Mrs. Carnera had made some anti-Nazi remarks which resulted in a barroom brawl, which resulted in some flattened-out Germans...
...photographer, parachuted into Germany last week with the U.S. 17th Airborne Division. Two nights later he turned up in Paris, bone-weary, unshaven, still clad in a dirty paratroop uniform. At the apartment of TIME'S chief military correspondent, Charles Christian Wertenbaker, Mr. Capa consented to eat some ham and eggs and beefsteak and bread and butter and cheese and cake, and to drink some coffee and burgundy and champagne and cognac. Between swallows he explained what it was like...
...weighs 227 lbs., sleeps in an 8-by-6 bed and looks like a gangling Harold Lloyd, even to the horn-rimmed spectacles. To keep his elongated bones together, De Paul University's mild-mannered Mikan makes away with a daily breakfast of oatmeal, a half dozen eggs, ham, angel cake, three cups of coffee, a cod-liver pill...