Word: hamming
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...into the shop, unless my father was with me. It was a paradise of glue and pitch, of files and a vise, and heads in the rough, with a smell that still comes gratefully back to me. "God bless me," as Mr. Borthrup Trumbull (in "Middlemarch") remarked of the ham, "what an aroma...
Eager for a showdown at the anthropology convention, opponents of sociobiology tried to push through a ham-handed resolution condemning the new science as "an attempt to justify genetically the sexist, racist and elitist status quo in human society." The resolution also deplored sociobiology's pernicious influences on the young, through its use in school texts...
...zeal, the KCIA is regarded in Washington as a ham-handed offspring of the U.S. CIA-which has helped finance the KCIA in the past. The KCIA does not bother to gather intelligence from South Korea's closest enemy, North Korea. Aside from its efforts to buy influence in U.S. political circles, its main mission seems to be to suppress criticism of the Park regime at home and abroad, notably in the U.S., which has big Korean populations in Los Angeles, New York City and Washington. The FBI has been probing-so far inconclusively-complaints by Korean dissidents...
...into that scene for a while," Baggott said while contemplating the ham loaf with pineapple sauce. "Few people in my position would go to Harvard. Why we used to shave our hair off for the football season. We were total monsters, but something in my character said I didn't want that to continue...
Among these, Lacoss said, are turkey ham, turkey bologna and turkey pastrami. Lacoss has tasted the ham substitute, and said it's pretty edible. And it's lower in calories and fat than regular ham, which--since CHUL's initial concern was with health and the world food shortage, not cost-is all to the good...