Word: hams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instance, a penchant for providing flowers for the ship's passengers. He enjoyed toiling on deck with the crew. He kept a motorcycle on the ship, and used it for jaunts ashore-expeditions for which he often donned an electrically lighted bow tie. He was an unabashed radio ham and on dull nights at sea he liked to spell the ship's operator...
...Deluge!! "Bette Williams in her greatest-ever role as Noah's wife. Shut up in a floating menagerie with a wild-eyed, 600-year-old prophet! Is he saint or maniac? You'll never forget Shem, battling against the fire in the blazing hold; or Ham rescuing Japheth from the maddened gorilla they dare not kill! . . . Marvel at Lassie as she rounds up the escaped leopards fighting on the roof...
Family Reunion. On Christmas, Harry Moore and his wife Harriette held a family reunion. Their 23-year-old daughter Annie, Moore's mother, his wife's soldier-brother, who had just returned from Korea, sat down with them to a ham and turkey dinner. After the big day, all went to bed early-lights in the house were out by 10 o'clock...
...question was put (as it usually was) in fine print. This uneducated moral sense led congressional committees through a sordid trail of mink coats and other gifts to Government officials. Casuistry reached a high point with the official whose conscience told him that it was proper to accept a ham under twelve pounds, but not a bigger one. Democratic Chairman William Boyle resigned his job under a cumulus cloud of influence peddling, and his successor was hardly in office before clouds gathered over him too. The public worked up quite a head of indignant steam over scandals in the Bureau...
...level of the dialogue. Robert Taylor, as the Latin hero, runs the emotional gamut, with his accustomed impassive Cherokee stare. Deborah Kerr, the titian-haired heroine, brings to her role the solemn uncomprehending dogmatism of a Radcliffe freshman discussing the subjects in question--sex and religion. But the prize ham of the evening goes to Peter Ustinov, who makes such a hash out of Nero that you wind up feeling sorry...