Word: hamming
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...form in front of the austere, dimly lit shop. A panel truck pulls up to the rear entrance, and two burly workers, their white smocks spattered with red stains, deliver their precious cargo: a day's supply of meat. Within three hours, the choicest cuts-pork chops, ham, boneless beef-will be gone. The late arrivals will have to make do with sausage, soup bones or chicken. Or perhaps nothing...
...dint of sacrifice and subterfuge, the Poles scrape by somehow, and no one is starving. Families save their coupons for ham or pork on Sunday or buy on the black market. Says Stanislaw Szczepanski, Vice Minister of Agriculture: "To Poles, a meal is not a meal without a piece of pork. It is a matter of status." Those who cannot get meat make do on Sunday with pierogi, pastry stuffed with a kind of cottage cheese...
...another, more public afternoon in Mocksville, N.C., at a Masonic picnic, Helms is not asked to account for his future. His speech is scheduled between Ferris wheel rides and an all-you-can-eat feast of baked ham and lemon pie. Supporters mob him all day. He is happy...
Although video freaks may think of themselves as space-age ham operators, innocently tuning in on whatever signals bounce about in the ether, satellite programmers consider them electronic buccaneers and mutter darkly about "tapping," "free-lunching" and "unauthorized reception." Among the toughest in its stance has been Time Inc.'s Home Box Office, whose chief counsel, John Redpath, says the company is considering "all possible alternatives to stop" unofficial signal reception...
...Examples: sugar would rise from 16? to 60? per lb.; ham from...