Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carry the sputnik over different territory. General Anatoly Arkadievich Blagonravov, head of a three-man Russian delegation to last week's satellite convention in Washington, says that it has four radio antennae and that the power of the radio signal is one watt (enough for a U.S. radio ham to talk with Australia). He estimates that the satellite's batteries will keep its transmitter beeping for about three weeks. There was nothing on board this first sputnik, said Blagonravov except the batteries and transmitter...
Though a devoted Communist, Tito was also a romantic-and a ham-to whom form was important. He saw himself as a fiery revolutionary, 1917 model, waving a Red flag on the barricades. Stalin, fighting for his own life and that of his grey, monolithic regime, wanted no Balkan hothead making the Allies suspicious of Communism's ultimate intentions. He was to declare airily: "I will shake my little finger, and there will be no more Tito." This exciting, carefully documented book helps explain why, although there is no more Stalin, there is still a Tito...
...family Bible. As Eve Black, she shakes it around with considerable virtuosity. And as Jane, she breathes a calm, midsummer warmth of maturity. But time and again, the script forces her to change character so often and so quickly that her meatiest moments sometimes look like rather thinly sliced ham...
...Woman's Secret. In Columbus, Ohio, after police, alerted by suspicious merchants, followed Catherine Clegg, 34, found in her car and in a trick skirt, a chicken, two pounds of butter, a small ham, oranges, a package of chopped beef, a pound of perch, a pound of bacon, a steak, a box of Kleenex, a bottle of milk of magnesia, two kinds of toilet soap, two bottles of headache tablets, a couple of combs, a bottle of shampoo and two kinds of hair bleach-almost none of which had been paid for-she explained: "I didn...
...will be in color, account for about 117 hours of programing and a whopping $40 million in gross billings. John (Pajama Game) Raitt will join Mary Martin in Annie Get Your Gun; Van Johnson is set to play The Pied Piper of Hamelin; and Mickey Rooney brings his cultivated ham to Pinocchio. Maurice Evans will produce and star in Twelfth Night and Dial M for Murder for Hallmark Hall of Fame. Ex-Cinemoppet Shirley Temple acts as hostess and sometimes star of a new fairy-tale series, and NBC Opera Company will do Rigoletto, Die Meistersinger and Poulenc...