Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blood, Pink Ink & Ham...
...explanation of Rickey's career may be that husky, ham-handed Branch, who loves the game as much as the clicking of a Saturday-afternoon turnstile, was never a top man in baseball's ordinary occupations. In his 20s he broke into the majors as a catcher for the Cincinnati Reds, but he was no star-and besides, Pious Methodist Rickey refused to play on Sundays. He tried managing the St. Louis Browns, but he lacked the temperament to field-boss some of his hardbitten pros. He found himself, and became Innovator Rickey, when he put his college...
Considering that one of the greatest low comedians-not to say ham tragedians-would be sitting on the other side of the table, this was quite an order. But if anybody could bring it off, Moses was probably the man. An old hand in the coal pits himself, he has been a friend of Lewis (away from the bargaining table) ever since he first knew him as a boy in Lucas, Iowa...
That Man Louis. Harry Truman's decision to fire Louis Johnson was not a sudden one. For months his Defense Secretary had been a problem. White House conferences had been frequently blue with the complaints of colleagues who had suffered from Johnson's undercutting, ham-handedness, blooper-blowing. With his customary loyalty to his staff, Mr. Truman had defended him before the country...
Loading Time. No one ate very much lunch (a cold salad of macaroni and ham). At 2:45 p.m. the boat teams prepared to go over the side. I joined Captain Jaskilka's people. We stood there waiting for our wave to load into the landing craft. Ours was the third. The first wave was to hit the 9½ ft. sea wall at Inchon at 5:30 p.m. The second wave would be three minutes later. The third wave was to land at 5:40. These first three waves on Red Beach, a tiny plot of ground...