Word: chewers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orval Faubus was changing. No longer a matchstick chewer. no longer in pants that ended north of his socks, he became a well-dressed fellow, took to dark suits with a white handkerchief sticking out of the breast pocket. He still spouted cliches ("A stitch in time . . ."; "An ounce of prevention . . .") and he still called the militia the me-lish-ee. but he talked big about running for a third term (which no Arkansas governor has had since 1905) and even acted as if he would like to move into bigger political hills. Said one observer of Orval Faubus...
...snores of yesteryear? In 1901, the short, unhappy life of François Villon, the notorious balladist of 15th century France, was rewritten by Playwright Justin McCarthy as a long, claptrappy rapier romance that held the stage for decades and made E. H. Sothern the most famous scenery-chewer of his time...
Easy Prey. The Navajos, already wretched in their poverty and disease (TIME, Nov. 3, 1947), were easy prey for peyote peddlers. The stuff offered them escape from their troubles. After a twinge of nausea (felt only by beginners), the peyote-chewer gets an otherworldly sensation of being in two parts. Then come visions and hallucinations, always involving bright colors and lights-"dreams in Technicolor." The medical aftereffects, still in dispute, apparently include impairment of the heart and kidneys...