Word: chawing
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...their neighborhood is being run down. They are rather more clever than you would give them credit for - short-circuiting the lights at will, squirming through air-conditioning ducts to bite the folks good night. After a while, indeed, one begins to suspect that they had a chaw or two on the wiring of the computer that picked this lot of survival candidates. There are more neurotics among them than a random sampling of subway riders would probably produce, and they are not very clever with their hands, either. In various skirmishes the percent age of bat casualties...
...When the Senators moved, who played third base for the "new" Minnesota Twins and was always pictured in the Topps baseball cards with a huge chaw of Mail Pouch in his cheek...
...Karachi last week, the gold-starred red flag of Communist China fluttered in the streets, even in front of the ultramodern U.S. embassy. Overhead were strung banners hailing "Chinese-Pakistani Friendship" and welcoming joyfully, if inaccurately, "Chaw...
...Having seen the picture of the champion pointer and read the account of how these dogs are trained, I would now like to see a picture of this dog's owner, complete with all his ribs showing, wearing a spiked collar, having a chaw of tobacco thrust down his throat, with his hind end full of buckshot, and eating partridge liberally laced with long sharp needles...
...banker, Mills was sent to Harvard Law School, returned home to a job in his father's Kensett State Bank. In 1938, Mills ran for the House of Representatives. He learned to hunker on the court house steps, to roll his own Bull Durham cigarettes, and to chaw tobacco without turning green (at least until he got out of the sight of the donor). He had another campaign asset in the comely person of his wife Clarine ("Polly"), whom he still describes as "the best handshaker a man ever married." Mills won easily, and by 1952 had become such...