Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telling his children's Government all about his work for his Fatherland. Witnesses testified that bespectacled, thick-lipped George Viereck had helped write speeches for Congressmen (including Minnesota's late Senator Ernest Lundeen), had mailed them throughout the nation in franked envelopes furnished by Congress man Ham Fish's secretary, George Hill (TIME...
...their play and have adopted the technique of the Old Howard comedians. The play is no longer shocking through its representation of the squalid conditions of the southern share cropper, as the message is lost in an orgy of vulgarity presented in a manner that reeks of barbequed ham...
Renald R. Robnett, assistant professor of Accounting at M. I. T. as visiting lecturer on Accounting; Klemens W. Von Klemperer, as Teaching Fellow in History; Warren C. Hall '38, he Teaching Fellow in Physics and Communications Engineering. Teaching Fellows in Far Eastern Languages are Ryong Chyun Ham, Isamu Sato, and Takebiko Yoshihashi...
...snipe at his rear with embarrassing questions, cut off his flanks with counterproposals. But this time General Morgenthau had not given Congress time to mobilize. Treasury and Congressional experts had worked out the campaign together. Mr. Morgenthau had smoothed the way for his Blitzkrieg by luncheons with big, ham-handed Chairman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton of the House Ways & Means committee (which starts the tax bill rolling) and urbane Chairman Walter F. George of the Senate Finance Committee. With their help, Strategist Morgenthau thought that he could make...
...Correctly pronounced, its first syllable rhymes with "palm." Most people prefer to rhyme it with "ham...