Word: hams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters aboard a destroyer, grizzled "Ham" Roberts, whose close-cropped mustache makes him look as though he has merely forgotten to shave, led the attackers in. They had a tough job ahead of them. Batteries of German cannon and machine guns, perched on the cliffs and hidden in caves, could turn an enfilading fire on the beaches, which bristled with barbed wire. From deep fortifications further inland artillery could lay down a curtain of fire offshore. Along new military roads and railways German reinforcements could be swiftly concentrated against the attackers (see p. 29). After the assault and occupation would...
...camouflaged tent at the headquarters of the 13th Corps, Churchill lunched on prawns mayonnaise, ham and tongue, rolls, butter and cold beer. Airmen invited to meet the "distinguished Mr. Bullfinch" reported that when he whammed a fly with 39 his long-tailed Egyptian fly whisk, he paused to comment dryly: "I don't think that was a probable, gentlemen." In an impromptu speech to flyers just off patrol duty, he said: "You have fought a battle comparable with the Battle of Britain. You need not doubt that you will be supplied with the best equipment...
...Orange, Dutchess and Putnam counties the old families, the wealthy estate holders and the conservative farmers renominated their own Ham Fish two to one over three candidates. Vowed Wendell Willkie: "For the sake of the country and of the Republican Party the fight for his [Fish's] elimination must continue." Lines were now drawn for the real fight; private polls showed that Fish was definitely in danger of his first defeat...
...Aside from local campaigns, probably the widest editorial comment was given Republican Ham Fish's renomination in New York's aristocratic Hyde Park district-Said the Chicago Sun: "If you want to use primary results as a test of what people think about the war, Hitlerism, etc., it is best to do so at a distance. Those who rejoice at 'Ham' Fish's renomination, from 1,000 miles away, are far more likely to be Nazi sympathizers or appeasers than the neighbors who vote for him because they regard him as a likable blunderer...
...Government buying is heaviest in ham, corned beef and other cured meats. The public will have to learn to eat more fresh pork and like it. Curing facilities are limited, so there will be a glut of fresh-killed pigs when the fall crop of shotes comes to market in October...