Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rose, Ham Foster, and Landon Thomas won three matches for Harvard, 3-1. 3-2, and 3-1, but Robert Hartley and Al Stone lost their matches 3-` and 3-0, to give the Boat Club their two scores...
...Conner family of the Midwest city of Green Prairie represent the new Wylie ideal. Father Conner is a sturdy sector warden who has kept his faith in C.D. throughout the dull years of cold war. So have his worthy wife and their sons Ted (a radio ham) and Chuck (an architect serving in Air Force intelligence). But their neighbors, the Bailey family, have spent the cold-war years lining their nests and crying haw-haw at C.D., except for daughter Lenore, who is devoted both to Chuck Conner and radiochemistry. Trouble is that Lenore is faced with the prospect...
...more than 1,600 m.p.h., 2½ times the speed of sound. In sport, Casey Stengel of the New York Yankees became baseball's first manager to win five consecutive World Series championships. Native Dancer, a big grey horse with the legs of a champion and the inbred ham of a Barrymore. teamed with TV to make horse-racing fans out of millions who did not know a fetlock from a padlock. The year brought reminders of previous champions: Jim Jeffries died; so did Bill Tilden and Jim Thorpe. Handy Earl Sande, 54, and hard up for eating money...
Dashing down the basketball court, dribbling the ball past the defense, the Boston Celtics' Bob Cousy raced toward the basket. In the midst of a mid-air leap he palmed the ball in his ham-sized right hand, faked a pass, swung the ball behind his back into his left hand, then took his shot toward the basket-all before his feet touched the floor. The ball dropped through without even touching the rim, and the crowd of 13,837 in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden broke into cheers. Most of them had come to watch Cousy perform...
...would spotlight the actual cost of social security and would stop the Government from using social-security taxes to pay other Government bills. It would also lessen the danger that the social-security program, under political pressure, might degenerate into an overliberal program of Ham & Egg handouts from a big trust fund already piled up. The big virtue of pay-as-you-go is that if any pressure group tried to change social-security benefits to its advantage, the added tax would show at once...