Word: hamming
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...Nono, it turns out, had a Jewish problem of his own. Mortara is the great-grandniece of Edgardo Mortara, who was taken from his Jewish parents at age six in 1858 by the papal police and raised--in part by Pius himself--as a Catholic. The incident typified Pius' ham-fisted treatment of the Jews, and many feel his beatification contradicts Pope John Paul II's embrace of that people and his apologies for their treatment by church members. Israel's Ambassador to the Holy See, Aharon Lopez, while stressing that beatification is a church "internal matter," told TIME that...
...when I was required by pesky editors to order dinner for 50 entirely off the Internet, including a person to help serve. When that person, like so much else, didn't show up, the Senator got his own drink, and Hadassah rolled up her silk sleeves to lug the ham and side dishes to the table, never mentioning that there was nothing she and Joe could eat. She keeps him from holding forth in the Great Man way, having told him one time long ago that "there was one less Great Man in the world than he might think." Hadassah...
...standard homes, say administrators. Some have found it increases profits. And Eden can save lives. Before Fir Lane had been "Edenized," Denny Stasco, 58, says he arrived with MS, feeling as though he had "been dropped off at the bus station with no ride home." Now, as the resident ham-radio operator and mayor of his "neighborhood," or hall, Stasco says, "there's no time to feel bad." That goes for physical health as well. Jessie Walters, 79, a resident of the Oaks at Forsyth in Winston-Salem, N.C., recalls a grim prognosis from doctors after she had a massive...
...columnist and a reporter?" asked Platt. "Ego!" His audience - mostly, of course, reporters rather than columnists - roared. Even when someone managed to raise the question of why Wolf cast Platt as a lead when, after all, the jowly actor is about as leading-man dashing as a smoked ham, it was in almost cringingly apologetic terms: "I mean, he, he doesn't look like a conventional TV star - he looks like he could...
...Bennigan's. Eat supper (ham and cheese sandwich). Return to hospital...