Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vastly different biographical books had solid successes, one predictable, the other a surprise. Tallulah had all the ham to be expected from Actress Bankhead; at year's end it was at the top of the bestseller list. The other, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, was the deeply moving journal of a teen-age Jewish girl in hiding from the Gestapo (she died later in a concentration camp...
...Brahms Variations, long and repetitions, need a varied, carefully proportioned performance if their basic grandeur is to get through. Beyer's contrasting treatment of the heaven-storming passages and the more flippant variations was enormously effective. He sometimes injected a bit of ham by excess rubato and uncalled for rolling chords, but at least it was obvious that his interpretation was the result of careful thought...
Charlie Ufford had to overcome an 8 to 1 deficit before taking his first game from Ham Quain of McGill, 15 to 12. He breezed through the second game, but went into overtime before clinching the match 17 to 14 in the third game...
...Ham's twin brother, Red Quain, dropped his first game to Crimson captain Dave Watts by only 16 to 14. He won the second game 15 to 11 and led well into the third game before Watts caught are and took the match with scores of 15 to 6 and 15 to 5 in the next two games...
...South, Ike's breakthrough widened. With a third of Florida's votes recorded, Eisenhower was leading by 56%, sweeping through the big cities, rolling up the Gold Coast and whittling the normal Democratic majority in the ham-and-hominy belt of Leon County. In Virginia, with half the.votes counted, the race was already over; Ike was carrying Richmond by more than 2 to 1, carrying Roanoke and Lynchburg by 2 to 1, edging ahead even in rural Cumberland and Powhatan Counties. For the first time since 1928. Virginia was swinging Republican, 111,000 to 88,000. In Maryland...