Word: hamming
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...Honor Lyndon B. Johnson saw method in the largesse. ''It's very interesting." said the Vice President, "that when you think of Lady Bird, you give her a very fine walking horse, but when you think of me, you give me a forty-pound. Tennessee-cured ham...
...plays, says the author, might have reached Broadway "if I had been willing to take writing lessons from directors, but I know of no director whose writing talent I respect." A hint that this is true comes a few sentences later: "Why do you suppose every Hollywood and Broadway ham, facing a receding hairline and a sagging chin, announces that he is retiring from acting to become a director...
...Hams boast of far more historic achievements than playing cuddly over the air waves. They have made notable contributions to the radio arts; their experimentation and enthusiasm, for example, has led to widespread use of single sideband radio. In 1957, ham operators helped track Russia's Sputnik when U.S. scientists were caught without an effective radio tracking setup. In the Congo crisis last summer, a Leopoldville ham picked up a message from a remote part of the Congo that said: "We need help; five women, eight children, four men cut off for days. Two women raped." Within hours, Belgian...
...speech he delivers as though utterly unmoved; he seems to see at most a hatpin. At other times, in direct violation of Hamlet's advice, he tears a passion to tatters. Whatever he does, the lines just do not carry conviction; and we get, for shame, either sham or ham. In the "multitudinous seas" passage, he bids to improve on the playwright by saying, "Making the green...
...there was any man at Oakland Hills with the brand of golf needed to take the Monster's measure, it was Gene Littler, 30, a sandy-haired, ham-handed ex-sailor from La Jolla, Calif. A reserved, coldly efficient man dubbed "Gene the Machine" and "Stone Face." he was runnerup in the 1954 Open. But then he went into a disastrous slump, and had yet to redeem his promise. Out of play with a rib injury early this year, he had not won a tournament, but he was slowly regaining his old style and steadily perfecting his putting...