Word: hamming
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...officers have hitherto been allowed to operate, specifically forbids them to accept not only gifts and gratuities but that pillar of modern U.S. society, the expense-account lunch. "This thing is absurd," says Louisiana Congressman F. Edward Hebert. "It means officers can't accept a Coke or a ham sandwich. It says in effect that an admiral can be bribed by a lunch." Cried an anguished aircraft-company representative: "It's an infraction of my civil rights...
...eyes, set off by pink cheeks and carefully coifed, grey-streaked hair, throw a friendly glint. At the slightest sound of applause, Murphy is transported happily back to the heyday, 25 years ago, when he song-and-danced his way across the nation's cinema screens. Then the ham in him surfaces, and he talks and talks and talks until his aides tug at him and tell him it is time to quit...
...person who regards himself as a reflective and civilized student of his subject without necessarily doing extensive research in it. There never were many such people on the American academic scene and most of the people, when I was an undergraduate, who claimed to be scholars were either ham actors or pedants or both. But the scholar is not an active colleague on a team so much as a man who reads and reflects and enjoys learning, and in the continuing debate on research versus teaching, this particular species has dropped from view...
...presidential moves, such as withdrawing recognition from Britain, India, Sweden, and Switzerland, kicking the man from the New York Times out of a press conference, warring on poverty with thermonuclear bombs, installing a nuclear warhead in every privately owned plane in the country, and talking with Khrushchev on his ham radio. Says Khrush: "How's by you, Goldbottle...
Humble Thanks. Through a window, newsmen watched Murphy scribbling on a yellow pad as his ex-wife took the stand. Still smiling, she emerged at noon for a storybook picnic lunch (ham, roast beef and chicken-salad sandwiches on white bread with trimmed crusts) in the sheriff's office. Still unsmiling, Murphy and his wife ate in a bar and grill down the street...