Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continue. The rest of Milty's specialties are unique in the area: item, the Fresser's Special (55 cents) of corned beef, pastrami and salami on a roll; item, a 50 cent Yagdwurst (which means Polish pressed ham sandwich; item, and one in which Milty takes particular pride, the only French fried onion rings in Harvard (25 cents...
...tambourines in the mountain village of Hasroun. finally the presentation of the nation's highest award, Commander of the Order of the Cedars, for "propagating the good name of Lebanon abroad." To U.S. TV fans, the fuss was readily fathomable. Yacoub is better known as hawk-nosed, ham-on-wry Danny Thomas, 48, Michigan-born son of a Lebanese farmer who left Hasroun at the turn of the century to raise a family of ten children...
...blow itself to bits. Yet suddenly the destruct system is activated, and the missile, possibly with a man atop it, explodes in a blossom of flame. The odds against such a mishap are small, but there is always a chance that an unintended signal perhaps from a badly adjusted ham radio, may destruct a missile that is flying properly or still on its launching...
...around him in school for evidence of discrimination. Though Blida was 80% Moslem, 27 of the 30 students in his class were European. One Moslem classmate was Saad Dahlab, now F.L.N. Foreign Minister and often called the "theorist of the revolution." A grade or two below was M'ham-med Yazid, now F.L.N. Information Minister. Benkhedda pored over books on modern revolutions-French, American and Russian. He recalls wanting to cry out in protest when his history teacher duly noted that Algeria had never been independent-that when the French took it over in 1830, it was only...
Historically, the Mormon Church has held that all worthy males, except Negroes, may become members of the priesthood. Joseph Smith, the church's founder and first prophet, wrote in his Book of Abraham that Negroes are a cursed race, the descendants of Noah's son Ham, and Ham's son Canaan. They are not regarded as utter pariahs, however, and the Mormon Church grants them all of its blessings-including ultimate salvation-except the priesthood...