Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More serious Frenchmen also had their show last week. They flocked to view and sample the fat flitches of bacon, succulent sausages and juicy sides of pork on display at Paris' traditional Ham Fair, reopened for the first time since the war. One epicure, tasting an exhibit (below), demonstrated that there were at least some people left in the world who appreciated the importance of the finer things in life-the proper blending of spices and garlic in a sausage, for example...
...House; Geoffrey Doughlas Bust '50 of Cambridge and Eliot House; Francis Fenghstang Chen '50 of New York City and Eliot House; Giles Constable '50 of 23 Chaigie Street, Cambridge; Samuel Isaac Epstein '50 of Dorchester and Lowell House; Thomas Fulton '51 of Long Island City, New York; Frank Slagle Ham '50 of Washington and Lowell House; and Unrich Ernst Kruse '50 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Lowell House...
...ham-handed forays into the field of civil liberties that citizens of this Commonwealth have been treated to during the current Big Red Scare, House bill 1943 is probably the worst. This document, sponsored by Representative John J. Toomey of Cambridge, would amend the State Constitution to prohibit "persons promoting, furthering, or participating in any movements which are subversive to our American form of government or advocating theories or doctrines contrary to and inconsistent with the constitution of this commonwealth and of the United States" from voting or holding public office...
...denying Britons. Finletter had no need to pressure or preach. Socialist Britain, in fact, could be quite touchy about capitalist America's help. As Finletter well knew, EGA could come a political cropper if it crudely pressed a capitalist tract into Britain's hand along with the ham sandwich...
They include: Ted Anderson, Al Carter, Louis Cox, Bill Curwon, Ham Fish, George Hewitt, Henry Howells, John Hutchinson, Charlie Iselin, Ken Keniston, Jim Mathewson, John Merrick, Nat Ober, Ed Reynolds...