Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hooray for Dewey for his honesty, and for his clean way of campaigning, his sportsmanship. A damn good egg. I was particullarly impressed by his damnation of Ham Fish for the slam at the Jews...
...page of the V-Mail Edition contains about half as many words as a regular TIME page, so each copy runs between 60 and 70 pages of thick photographic paper printed on one side only. The result is the bulkiest of all our 20 editions - as thick-as a ham sandwich...
...Among London's hard hit districts (Croydon, Woolwich, Greenwich, Orpington, Wandsworth, Lewisham, Beckenham, West Ham, Camberwell and Lambeth) Croydon got it worst. Only 211 of its citizens were killed but 75% of its houses were damaged or destroyed (Coventry's percentage in the 1940 blitz...
...assuage this feeling McNaughton intervened. The Dieppe raid was originally planned by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten as an all-British show, but McNaughton persuaded the War Office to let his Canadians take the main role. The raid was commanded from a destroyer by Major General John Hamilton ("Ham") Roberts (who is now in charge of Canadian reinforcements flowing in & out of Britain). The raid won Roberts a D.S.O., but both he and McNaughton had to listen to cries from armchair critics that it had been botched. Actually, the Canadians paid most of the price for the lessons of invasion which...
Carrie Jacobs Bond, sugary sweet, old-time song writer (A Perfect Day, I Love You Truly) was treated to an Sand-birthday party by the ham-&-eggs eating Los Angeles Breakfast Club. White-haired, ailing Mrs. Bond brushed aside the protests of her nurse, made a speech, next day was back in bed. One of ASCAP's top-ranking members (A Perfect Day alone has sold over 8,000,000 copies), she has grown rich on her royalties, still turned out songs until six months ago, when she became a semi-invalid. Her latest is called Because. Said...