Word: hamming
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...helpless to handle his neighbors, his job or even his flirtatious wife ("I saw a kiss. I saw tongues"). Jews, of course, have no priority on black humor. One of its darkest stars, Terry Southern, a Texas gentile, has been operating successfully in the black for years with ham-handed satires on pornography (Candy), nuclear war (Dr. Strangelove) and money and morality (The Magic Christian...
...answer, Statistician E. Cuyler Ham mond of the American Cancer Society reported last week, is devastatingly sim ple: for all their freedom, modern wom en do not smoke as much as men. On the average, they do not start smoking as young, do not inhale as deeply, and have not smoked for as many years. Hammond's statistics also show, however, that the closer women's smoking practices approach men's, the closer are their disease and death rates...
...Ham 9 is to have unlimited enrollment, and will be taught in two lectures and one section every week...
...provided, on at least one occasion, the only surviving contact with a Latin American nation. After the 1964 revolution in Bolivia, the new government closed all the cable offices and grounded all planes. But the three American television networks set up temporary shop in the home of a ham in Jacobs's Latin American network. Their dispatches were pumped into Brookline, and Jacobs graciously handed them over to the waiting newsmen...
Jacobs, for example, sitting 4000 miles away, asked a man in Quito to put through a call to Guayaquil, about 100 miles away. The ham replied that a call like that would probably take days to complete...