Word: hams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grinding out his two or three epics a year, Wayne feinted a jab with Big Jim McLain, the story of a ham-fisted HUAC investigator. It failed because Wayne was as uneasy in mufti as he was playing Genghis Khan in The Conqueror. In that film, Mongolia became westernized when Wayne announced to Tartar Woman Susan...
...other signals-telemetric data on heartbeats, for example, pressure readings in the cabin, data from the computers-and imposed them on a single "carrier" frequency of 2,282.5 megahertz. An amplifier increased the signal's power from half a watt to 20 watts, the strength of a small ham-radio transmitter. The 26-in. dish antenna, perched atop the LM, then beamed the signal to earth...
...astronauts compensated for the uninspiring conversations with Houston during several performances in front of their color television camera?something that apparently can bring out the ham in any man. At one point, Collins said: "O.K., world. Hang onto your hat. I'm going to turn you upside down." As Collins rotated his camera, keeping it pointed toward the earth, the blue and white planet took an erratic 180° turn on earth-based TV screens. "I'm making myself seasick," Collins called to Houston. "I'm going to put you right side up." The earth promptly performed another lazy turn...
...evening. Splitting the air with a high, resounding falsetto, he yodeled up and down the scale like a goatherd piping to his flock. Said Parsons: "I would holler my holler, and by the time I got home and had the mules unhitched, Mother would have the ham a-fryin' and the peas a-cookin...
...cacophonous main cellblock. Prison officials laid on the full treatment, later declared one white-haired judge to be suffering from "suicidal tendencies" and sent him to an isolation cell. There he was protectively stripped of his belt, shoes, glasses and pen, and was made to eat his dinner of ham and black-eyed peas from a paper plate with a plastic spoon...