Word: chews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editor knows her business girls better than they know themselves. By bombarding them with questionnaires, she has learned that they earn an average of $170 a month, that 71% of them chew gum, only 37% smoke 63% are single and 95% think (wishfully or otherwise) that it is not a man's world...
Shortly before noon, jug-eared Ewell Blackwell walked onto the turf at Chicago's Wrigley Field. It was an hour and a half before game time. He looked around, then strolled nonchalantly to the third-base dugout. Someone offered him a chew of tobacco and asked if he was nervous. The most talked-about pitcher of the year waved away the tobacco and said: "Naw, I don't get nervous any more. Last year I used to be nervous as a cat before a game, and then I found it made me wild in the early innings...
There was plenty to chew over. For the C.I.O., one major problem is the ruling that unions seeking NLRB services must first swear that none of their officials is a Communist. That measure could play havoc with such unions as the furriers, whose boss is Communist Ben Gold. For the A.F.L., a major problem is the anti-closed shop provision, which strikes at the heart of A.F.L. monopolies in such fields as the building trades...
Investment Banker Willard H. York, 36, hustled his wife, mother, son & daughter into the family sedan and began the usual Sunday drive from his ranch to church in San Antonio. He had a particularly gritty rag to chew over with his conscience. On March 19, the SEC had filed suit against him. It charged that York had done business while insolvent, and had used customers' securities without their consent. The same day, Dr. Lloyd Irving Ross, one of San Antonio's top surgeons, had filed suit for $80,279. Dr. Ross was an old friend, a fellow Methodist...
...American children chew too much gum when they come to school. It isn't the gum-it is what the gum-chewing signifies. Gum-chewing in school is like a kid studying in an easy chair alongside the radio. . . . And cigarets. It is pitiful to go to some schools and see the children whip out packs of cigarets as they leave the building...