Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indisputable fact that he is 24 years older than his opponent will weigh heavily against him with many voters. He is only a few pounds overweight (190 Ibs.), but, as he rumbles, "I always gain weight on campaigns. Out visiting these people, they put on the table Kentucky ham, fried chicken, turnip greens, boiled potatoes, three-story cake and the other good eats. It's hard for a healthy man to resist." Barkley recognizes in Cooper a formidable opponent, and he realizes that it has been six years since he last campaigned for himself-a long time away from...
...right that caught the champion coming in and stopped him short. Then Rocky would shake the punch off and take up his stiff-legged charge. Stubbornly, Charles refused to go down. When the bell rang at the finish of the 15th round, he was still swinging. But the bumbling, ham-handed strongman from Brockton, Mass, was still the heavyweight cham pion of the world - a world in which good heavyweights are rare...
With her ashtray complex working overtime, Suzy makes a bachelor girl's flat out of an abandoned 16-ft. boiler and starts slinging ham & eggs at the local hash house. Just when the matchmaking plans appear to be spiked. Cannery Row focuses its cloudy mind long enough to bring the two lovers together by an action as silly as it is surprising...
...Williams varsity could take only the second and fourth singles, and it lost the other eight singles matches in straight sets. The Crimson winners included Ham Gravem, Captain John Rauh, Donn Spencer, Don Bossart, Conrad Fischer, Herb Stone, and Maynard Canfield. The varsity's second and fourth men--both of whom lost close three-set matches--were Brooks Harris and Alex Haegler...
Pablo Eisenberg and Ted Rogers of Princeton beat Ham Gravem and Brooks Harris in the first two singles matches in straight sets. Eisenberg won, 7-5, 6-3, over Gravem at number one. The only Crimson singles winners besides Rauh were Gene Mann at five and Herb Stone at nine...