Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer, and still ran out of money in his sophomore year and had to quit school. He hitchhiked West, dug storm sewers in Denver, earned some of his hardest-won dollars as a sparring partner in a local gymnasium until he was undone by a middleweight named Gentleman Ham Jenkins. After that he landed a job as a ranch hand in Wyoming's Jackson Hole country...
...Carriers that have been serving just such lavish sandwiches consoled themselves by reflecting that the ruling, after all, did not affect the chef's imagination. Said a spokesman for one: "We'll serve what we've been serving even if we have to roll up the ham so that a piece of bread will show as required...
...need be, shoot them for desertion. Another decree stiffened penalties for censorship violations; for newsmen, foreign as well as Cuban, up to one year's imprisonment; for newspapers and TV stations, heavy fines and suspension for up to one year. For the first time since World War II, "ham" radio operators got orders to turn in their sets for the duration...
...Producer Jerry Wald clearly had to clean up his subject for the screen. In the process, unfortunately, he converted Faulkner's county into a community almost as corny as Al Capp's Dogpatch, and reduced all the poetry of degradation to the customary commercial serving of fresh ham and pot likkah. And he replaced the emotional ingredients of The Hamlet's grand, grotesque romance-half arsenic, half cantharide-with a conventional love story that is at least as sweet as Coca-Cola...
...according to the dictates of his own four-footed psyche; his jockey is only along for the ride. He breaks from the gate like a common sprinter, races 70 yds., then lags as if his safety valve had popped. Wags in the press box contend that he is a ham who hates to leave the grandstand. And it is a heart-stopping fact to bettors that he begins to run again only when he rounds the stretch turn and heads for the crowd again. Says Co-Owner Tom Ross: "I swear, he counts the house...