Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schriever got a job as housekeeper to a wealthy San Antonian who set the Schriever family up on a bit of his property beside the twelfth green of the Brackenridge Park golf course. Here the family developed a profitable sideline by opening a refreshment stand, selling home-cured ham sandwiches, Bavarian cheeses and soft drinks to the passing golfers. Ben hurled himself at his schoolwork, was a bear at mathematics, graduated from high school at 16 in the National Honor Society. In his spare time, he used Brackenridge Park so studiously that he became a below-par golfer, once making...
...Clair, Glenn Goldberg is an incredibly marvelous ham, getting every possible laugh out of each word, and getting a few more with his actions. His singing is not as good, perhaps because he puts so much work into the dialogue, that there's nothing new left for the songs. As her blonde daughter Ivy, Nick Carter brings the house down. He is a delightful summer edition of one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's more uncomfortable winter dreams. Uncle Peter is played by Dave Wells. From the very tips of his moustache he drips with a beguiling, bloody-British, and beautifully...
Since his eviction from City Hall, New York City's councilmen have given him two old-fashioned reasons for their action. "They say TV coverage is 'disruptive' and the council members will 'ham it up,' " he explains. "I told them their ethics and integrity ought to be a matter for them to work out with themselves. But it was no dice. Now I feel it's my missionary duty to see this thing through." This week the council invited Pressman and representatives of all three networks to a formal session devoted to the admission...
...railroads' sorry plight comes largely from their own ham-handed public policies, the insulting behavior of their tip-hunting waiters, the overbearing conduct of conductors, their poorly cooked, generally high-priced meals, their grimy coaches, dismal and dirty stations, slow schedules. MILES HAMMOND Williston...
...centuries the fierce Berber tribes, sons of Ham, have been the scourge of Morocco. Time and again they have come galloping down from the Atlas Mountains to loot and rape. Because the French have not hesitated to use them for "pacifying" rebellious villages, they were always a threat to the Moroccan independence movement. One exception were the Tafilalet Berbers, led by Chief Addi ou Bihi, who sided with exiled Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef. When Ben Youssef was restored to the throne in 1955 to become the first Sultan of Free Morocco, one of his first acts was to appoint Addi...