Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today there are more than 350,000 licensed CBers, and the applications for licenses are flowing in at the rate of 10,000 a month. Unlike the skilled ham operators, whose higher-powered sets can span oceans and continents, CBers need take no tests or otherwise exhibit a capacity any more technical than the ability to sign their names. What's more, CB radio frequencies are so limited (23 channels, from 26,965 megacycles to 27,255 megacycles) that they must be used on a shared basis, like a telephone party line. Result: in any area where...
Asked last week what he thought about such drives, President Kennedy told his press conference that just because some merchant has Polish ham in his shop does not brand him as unpatriotic. "I don't think it really carries on much of an effective fight against the spread of Communism," he said...
Wily Sioux. The Free Democrats rejoice at having forced the resignation of Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, the man blamed for the ham-handed arrests of Der Spiegel executives (see below) but regret the price they had to pay: the replacement of the Ministers for Justice and Finance. Only the Socialists, as usual frozen out of the government, seem in a position to gain at the polls from the public disgust at the Spiegel affair...
...decided that the fellow must have had a crippled father whose incapacity had forced the son to work as a youth; and this imaginative insight has given him new vigor in the part, which he goes at with such competitive enthusiasm that he sometimes seems to cast a ham-fisted shadow over the more fragile performance of Margaret Leighton...
...Hunchback of Notre Dame), a thundering misanthrope (Mutiny on the Bounty), a ribald monarch (Henry VIII), an oratorical Southern senator (Advise and Consent). He was honored with Oscars, but cared little for the trappings of a star; as he himself said: "The truth is, I'm an incurable ham...