Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smart, Strong & Tough." At 4:30 and again at 5:30, Humphrey made motions toward leaving, but each time Khrushchev waved him back to his chair. At 7, dinner (beef, ham, wild fowl, etc.) was brought in, topped by a toast in Armenian brandy. At dinner's end, Humphrey made a forthright suggestion. "I agree," said Nikita Khrushchev, and the two tromped oft to a Kremlin lavatory, were soon back at the conference table. At 9, Anastas Mikoyan dropped by, and the talk returned to trade. At 9:30 it occurred to Humphrey that his wife might be worried...
Speaking before the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union, Johanson, the Latin American editor of the Christian Science Monitor, pointed out that "In Argentina, the best steaks cost 26 cents a pound, while a Chevrolet may cost from ten to twelve thousand dollars. In Venezuela, on the other hand, ham and eggs may cost...
...appointment. Nixon left it to his staff to set up a breakfast date at 7:45 next morning, let it be known that he was delaying his scheduled departure from New York to keep the date. The upshot: Nixon and Rockefeller got together for breakfast (oatmeal for Nixon, ham and scrambled eggs for Rockefeller), cordially posed for photographs over the coffee cups (Nixon pouring...
...Tell them its American. Tell them its first cousin to Ham n' Eggs...
...work (1897-1901) by Connecticut's late, largely self-taught Modernist Ives (an insurance broker most of his active life), the symphony was, as Lennie remarked, "original, eccentric, naive and as full of charm as an old lace valentine." With his own special mixture of eloquence, charm and ham, Bernstein thus gave the Philharmonic an excitement that it has not known in years (he will give the talks only at the Thursday-night "previews"). Broadway Librettist Adolph Green put it most succinctly when he saw Bernstein backstage after the performance, stripped to the waist and being massaged...