Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bart Arkell started with $10,-ooo, less than ten employes and an idea that the public would buy hickory-cured ham - his only product at the start. Be fore he eased off he had pushed Beech-Nut to No. 3 place in the U.S. confectionery industry, built its assets to $22,800,000 without a cent of debt...
Coups d'état are familiar features of the Iraqi political landscape. Sportive, fast-driving, ham Radioperator King Ghazi I survived three. Since 1939 when Ghazi wrapped roadster and self around an electric-light pole, Iraq's ruler has been his son, King Feisal II, a sloe-eyed moppet of five. Regent has been Faisal's Anglophile uncle, weak-chinned Prince Abdul Illah. In 1940, Prince Abdul Illah quashed one would-be Army coup by seizing the Iraqi telephone service and rusticating two uppity generals...
...instance, a ham sandwich is hamu sandowichi, tea is chee and coffee is kohi, which is as near as the Japanese can come to pronouncing these words. Gas is gasu, tobacco is tobaku and matches are matchi. Even in the country inns, the maid will come running in with a pair of surippa, bedroom slippers. Beer is biru. When you indicate that you want to get out of a bus the conductress cries stoppu to the driver. As you step into the street she shouts after you orai, which stands for "all right" but is actually a form of farewell...
...Howell, Soskin & Co., whom Zapp "procured" to publish the German White Paper under its imprint. Thence, the charges continued, the trail led to Ralph Beaver Strassburger, rich, 58-year-old publisher of the prosperous Norristown (Pa.) Times Herald, who last summer fought hard to get the Republican nomination for Ham Fish. According to the Federal indictment, Zapp "procured" Strassburger to finance and distribute free more than 60,000 copies of the White Paper, while concealing the fact that he had anything to do with the deal...
Hollywood claimed Welles never would make the grade. From the moment he arrived there its citizens resented him and his Martians and his youth and his talent. When he grew a beard for his first film, a sporty pressagent sent him a bearded ham for Christmas; while he was dining out one evening, a playful actor cut off his tie with a table knife; columnists dubbed him with nicknames like "Little Orson Annie." At announcements that his first two productions had been called off, the town nodded knowingly. He was just a big bag of publicity...