Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to cut a birthday cake. You want to cut your throat!" Chaplin's devoted wife, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 31 and soon expecting her sixth child, laughed nervously as Chaplin displayed a frighteningly realistic flash of his old pantomimic genius, faintly tinged with ham...
These two have proven more than adequate replacements for Brooks Harris and Ham Gravem of last year's intercollegiate championship squad, and with Ben Heckscher playing in the fourth position he filled so capably last year, the top four is a very powerful aggregation. This, combined with the strength of the varsity double combinations, makes the Crimson definitely a team of championship caliber...
...from an unquestioning Catholic. Much as he respected the church's authority in theory, he tormented it mercilessly in practice. "Are we all Catholics here?" he asked, coming down to Friday breakfast in a Catholic country house. "Very well, I shall help myself to a large slice of ham." Proof of the Catholic Church's divine inspiration, he once said, "might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight...
...beat is hard and jumping, the yodels are nasal, and the clipped British consonants that bristle occasionally among the carefully slurred ham-hock vowels are hilarious. The songs are chain-gang, camp-meeting U.S. imports: Wabash Cannonball, Frankie and Johnny, I Shall Not Be Moved. The musicians generally are amateurs, paid with coffee and Cokes, belting out their rockabilly on a couple of guitars, a banjo and a bass fiddle (sometimes store-bought, more often conjured out of an empty tea chest, a broomstick and a knotted string...
...that Gaitskell and Mollet differ from Stalin and Khrushchev only in degree is obviously suffering from the strain of overwork. In two by-elections last week, the voters gave their own reading of the political quarreling. The Tories managed to hold two seats in Newcastle-on-Tyne and Becken-ham, but in both cases suffered a loss of votes to the Socialists. In Newcastle-on-Tyne the Tory percentage dropped by 3½%, in Beckenham by 6%. In all, the Tories have suffered losses or reduced percentages in every by-election since Suez, and since Macmillan succeeded Anthony Eden...