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Word: hamming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celebration of the early Christian custom of agape, or love feast, in Munich parish homes and in its famed beer hall, the Hofbräuhaus, where some 900 people watched the papal legate, Gustavo Cardinal Testa, move smilingly among them, passing out hard rolls to be eaten with cold ham and roast veal accompanied by Palatinate wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Eucharistic Congress | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...Hand at the Tie. As always, Khrushchev could switch with bewildering speed from bully to ham. "Communism is my elixir of life," he bragged. "All I want is to live long enough to see the Red flag flying all over the world." At one point, riding through the Alps by cable car, he burst into the Volga Boatmen's song, insisted that Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko join in. While his wife Nina stayed humbly to the rear, he flirted with his attractive blonde Minister of Culture, Ekaterina Furtseva, 50. They joined in frequent private giggles, and occasionally she straightened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Big Wind in the Alps | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...Boston more than a century ago, in the great avalanche of immigration that followed the Irish potato famine. The families prospered, and both grandfathers, John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald and Patrick J. Kennedy, went into Democratic politics-Pat as a backstage oligarch, Honey Fitz as a frock-coated ham who could weep at will at a stranger's wake, made Sweet Adeline his theme song, served three terms in Congress and was a memorable mayor of Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Pride of the Clan | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

Says the Very Rev. Dom Aelred Gra ham, prior of the Portsmouth Priory, a Benedictine monastery whose monks run the exclusive Portsmouth Priory School, which annually sends the majority of its graduates to non-Catholic colleges (top favorite: Harvard) : "Sooner or later, boys are going to have to face the challenge of the unbelieving modern world. The ques tion is: Where are they going to do it? St. Thomas Aquinas stated that an inade quate argument for religion invites the derision of nonbelievers. If a boy at a Catholic college has the impression that his religious problems are not being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Letter | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

Tummy Ache. In Antwerp, when Aïda. he zoo's biggest elephant, died of intestinal trouble, an autopsy revealed that her stomach contained 1,706 peanuts, 198 cheese, ham, and other kinds of sandwiches, 1,330 pieces of candy, seven ice-cream cones, 811 biscuits, 17 apples, 198 pieces of orange. 891 lumps of bread, one small sausage, 13 wads of paper, three bags, one white glove, one shoestring, for a total undigested weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Miscellany, may 2, 1960 | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

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