Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hilton is opening, and the government is getting ready its application for the United Nations. President Johnson is sending Chief Justice Earl Warren to represent him at the ceremonies, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent will represent the Queen. Yet this week, as tiny (166 sq. mi.), ham-shaped Barbados gets its formal independence from Britain-the 23rd British possession to do so since World War II-its air is filled with a sense of restraint and nostalgia not usually associated with independence celebrations...
...Harvard Medical School Department of Legal Medicine has confirmed the death of Zabdiel Boylston Adams '65, who parachuted into the sea off East-ham by accident last summer...
...enlisted men's chow hall, Johnson picked up a partitioned tray, protested, "I'm watching my waistline" as it was heaped. with baked ham, macaroni, cole slaw, salad, mashed potatoes and apple pie. For a moment he sat alone at a special long table laid out for him with a white tablecloth and yellow roses. Then Westmoreland shouted to his subordinates...
...already been snapped up by radio stations in Columbus and Cleve land, Baltimore and New York City. Because of the similarity of radio programming, explains Siday, "it is very important that the listener know what station he is listening to." In addition to a six-note electronic theme that ham mers home the station's call letters in a dozen variations, Siday's package includes a kaleidoscope of sounds devised to orchestrate anything from sport news to traffic reports...
...York, Macbird, a ham-handed attack on Lyndon Johnson that makes no sense, flashes no wit, and deserves no mercy, was beginning negotiations for rental of an off-Broadway theater in which it plans to open in November. It presents the President and Lady Bird as latter-day Macbeths, murdering anyone who gets in their way, opposing "the Wayne of Morse," and chattering in very blank verse. Heaved together by a 25-year-old former Berkeley student named Barbara Garson, the play and its message are exemplified in Macbeth's lines to his chief of war, Lord MacNamara...