Word: hams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Throughout the voyage he was obsessed with the U.N.'s involvement in the Congo, especially the performance of the U.N. peace-keeping troops there and the activities of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. "I spit on the U.N.," he raged. "It's not our organization. That good-for-nothing Ham (the Russian word for boor applied as a nickname to the U.N. chief) is sticking his nose in important affairs which are none of his business. He has seized authority that doesn't belong to him. He must pay for that. We have to get rid of him by any means...
...funding for the first year is about one-fifth the cost of a single F-15." Around midnight, after a full day of work without a dinner break, the peace-loving conferees were supplied with one of war's little horrors: the latest in C rations, featuring ham loaf with beans and tomato sauce...
...party at the Washington Hilton last Friday night was a grand bash. Hundreds of guests mingled convivially, munching on fried chicken, hand-carved roast beef and ham. As the good spirit, and good spirits, flowed, the only odd note was the cause of the celebration: Government employees, past and present, were saluting the abolition of their agency, the Civil Aeronautics Board...
William Boyd's leading men tend to be ham-fisted brutes in a state of eternal frustration. Their weighty (245 Ibs.) prototype is Morgan Leafy, the splenetic diplomat at the center of Boyd's first novel, A Good Man in Africa. That account of coming of age in western Africa, published in the U.S. two years ago when Boyd was 30, certified him as a connoisseur of twits and cads. It also showcased Boyd's gift for spinning out old-fashioned tales that bounce along as smartly as a scriptwriter on holiday. Now, in his first collection...
...rate, it was initially recognized in Kenya in 1909. In 1971 it appeared for the first time in the Western Hemisphere, in Cuba, where 460,000 swine were killed to eliminate the disease. In 1978 it turned up in the Dominican Republic after a local pig supposedly ate contaminated ham from Spain. The vi rus quickly jumped the 200-mile common border into Haiti. Haitians recall seeing pigs fall dead in their tracks on the road and in the fields. But no one was able to determine accurately whether the deaths were all attributable to swine fever...