Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pride, now began looting shops and department stores. Food trains halted by the Russians outside Budapest were hijacked. Hundreds of radio sets were taken from one factory, presumably so that the rebel underground could listen to the outside world. Monitors reported the faint voice of a Hungarian radio "ham" calling: "Give us news! Say something! Give us news. We ask for news...
...World the only threat from the surrounding Gentiles is the occasional shouted taunt of "Dirdyjoo, dirdyjoo." Still, Abraham and his family retire into the same womblike, ghetto society from which they had fled. He works for Polsky, an earthy, ham-handed butcher, engages in subtle Talmudic debate about the ways of God and man, irritatedly suffers the attentions of Laiah, an opulently curved harlot, grows in peace and contentment as his son marries and makes him a grandfather. Then God tests Abraham once more, this time with the death of Isaac. Abraham breaks under the accusation that he destroyed...
...down to such later-day works as Georges Braque's Soda and Stuart Davis' Eggbeater V; it includes works by the 17th century Dutch masters, France's Chardin and Spanish Painter Zurbaran. Far from being a drab assortment of pots and pans, dead hares and Dutch ham, the exhibit does much to prove that minor them do not preclude a major work. Says Milwaukee Art Institute Director Edward H. Dwight of their intimate yet forceful quality: "The still life is to the painter what the quartet to the composer...
...Collins, the publicity-shy son of an Iowa farmer and businessman, built his company upon his lifelong hobby, tinkering with radios. (His newest hobby: tinkering with sports cars.) At 15, he made a newspaper name for himself as a ham operator who contacted the U.S. naval expedition to the North Pole. In 1931, he started turning out ham radio transmitters from a Cedar Rapids basement. Two years later he formed a company with $29,000 in capital assets...
...been vastly disappointed by the civil-rights planks of both the Democratic and Republican Conventions; moreover, he recalled the injunction of an A.F.L. founder, Samuel Gompers, against labor becoming too closely identified with either major political party. "Look," boomed Meany, walloping the table with the flat of his ham-sized right hand. "Don't get me wrong. I'm not neutral-I'm against both parties...