Word: hamming
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...rich farmers who don't like miraculous explanations for their provisions' presence in a poor peasant's larder--"I ask Your Honor," the woman, a bit overplayed by someone the program lists as Alison C., explains, "was there ever a time when a poor old woman could get a ham without a miracle...
...been quite a few years now since I first learned to love good old-fashioned country ham, cooked with grits and red-eye gravy. But it's only been a little while that I could even tolerate the wailing poignant sticky strains of country music...
...Country ham doesn't have to come from the smoke house as it once did, whole, wrapped in muslin, and heady with curing spices. Now it comes sliced, in clear plastic, under marketing names--like Andy Griffith's, for instance. Andy Griffith also smiles and solicits for his chain of "old fashion" restaurants across the Carolinas: Y'all come...
...Gerald Ham, president of the Society of American Archivists, insists: "I think it is a fiction that these are private papers. The very great bulk of these papers originate from one activity only -that of serving in a public capacity. I think they should be public papers." A 1969 study for the American Historical Association put the case even more strongly. The association said that the concept that a President's papers became his property after leaving office was "a lingering vestige of the attributes of monarchy, not an appropriate or compatible concept... for the head of a democratic...
...black market, however, have found that the unofficial price of sugar has jumped more than a third; the price of tea has risen by 94%. Beef and lamb are available only twice a week, even in restaurants. Yet no one suffers too much: alternatives include chicken, fish, pork, ham, sweetbreads, brains, tongue and squab. Most Cairenes tend to stay home these days anyway. Though it may not daunt Israeli pilots, the blackout, along with an 11 o'clock curfew, has put a damper on Cairo's night life...