Word: hams
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...Jason Ham, a resident of H entryway, said the university notified students of Manley's death in an e-mail message late Saturday...
...banana battle grows increasingly absurd as it threatens to spread to other food groups, from ham and cheese to wafers and waffles, and to such oddities as candles, cashmere sweaters and model trains. That's because the U.S. targeted for tariffs 17 European exports chosen to "gain the most leverage" over European protectionists. How? Mainly by targeting the British, French and Italians, who have pushed to restrict Latin bananas and to favor those grown in former European colonies, like Martinique and Cameroon...
Other interests eagerly crashed the party, seeing the banana dispute as a chance to settle old scores. U.S. pork producers, suffering through a severe price slump, sought to block the import of Italian hams like prosciutto. "The E.U. has closed off much of its market to us," reasoned Nick Giordano, a lawyer at the National Pork Producers Council. "We're looking for reciprocity, and one way to get it is nicking them on bananas." The council got pork added to the hit list. The hog farmers pushed to nail Dutch and Danish ham producers. But because those two countries...
...they and Williams (who in a chair next to Letterman is still our most brilliant word surrealist) renounce the work they've practiced with such abandon and invention for Patch's bullying sentimentality. Comics who want to do Hamlet often end up, as here, serving big, sticky slices of ham...
SPAM A leading source of nutritional humor since 1937, Spam is a mixture of pork shoulder, ham and spices. Spam has been a soldier's staple in too many wars. On a more peaceful front SPAM Ku: Tranquil Reflections on Luncheon Loaf, includes 162 odes to the luncheon meat by more than 40 writers...