Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also serving as unsalaried manager. The station could hardly have more fond attention. Schweitzer, one of three brothers in a firm that makes specialty papers (it merged in 1957 with Kimberly-Clark), keeps a G.E. transmitter tube on his desk because he considers it beautiful, has been an active ham operator since...
...against 8-ft. waves and a 60-mile-an-hour wind, bucked an old World War II amphibious craft manned by four cowled monks and a coast guardsman. When St. Angus finally got a line to them, the crew hauled up a tea chest of staples. It was no ham or roast goose Christmas dinner, for the monks who brought it were austere Trappists, who eat only bread, butter, cheese and fruit, but there were some cans of beer (kept for monastery guests), for St. Angus...
Internal Matter. In Miami, freed of a petty larceny charge for eating candy, strawberries, bananas, string beans and a package of sugar-coated ham while shopping in a supermarket, Mrs. Marie Schor said indignantly, "Why, I've been eating there for more than five years...
...selfless cockney courage, when the all-clear -blew, 1,436 Londoners were dead; another 1,800 clung to life in hospitals. Nearly 800 tons of high explosives and incendiaries dropped by 505 Luftwaffe bombers had tindered 2,200 fires, gutted 11,000 homes, chocked 8,000 streets from West Ham to Hammersmith with rubble...
...retired from teaching (by a heart attack) seven years ago, that Latin is not a dead language. "Our households and necessities and tastes have not changed much," he will tell a visitor to his home in West Topsham, Vt. "Did you know that Caesar's favorite breakfast was ham and eggs with a glass of milk?" Auxilium Latinum's 25,000 readers send in a steady stream of inquiries for just such knowledge, e.g., "What color were Caesar's eyes?"* For a coming issue, Warsley plans a reader-requested translation of one of Elvis Presley...