Word: chews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many of the brokers chew gum to keep their throats moist. The throat is important here. When you want to buy or sell, you have to be able to attract attention. Another flurry starts. 'Sell one Sep fifteen. . . . Sell five Christmas. . . . Sell July one five, think of wife and kids.' Then suddenly the noise fades out, the waving of fingers stops...
...four-man staff: Adviser Clark Clifford, Assistant John Steelman (still a White House big shot despite his labor bobbles), Secretaries Charlie Ross (press) and Matt Connelly (agenda). Clifford decides what Cabinet officers or other Administration officials should be called in for consultation, sets up a special subcommittee to chew on the problem. Major policy questions, or tough ones the subcommittee cannot decide, Harry Truman brings to his regular Friday Cabinet meeting...
...icily asked him to "cease talking so loudly." Sir Stafford suffered another interruption. Tory Robert Boothby broke in: "Is it in order for an honorable member to peel and eat an orange during the debate?" Solemnly the Chair ruled: "In this chamber one does not smoke, one does not chew gum, one does not eat chocolate and sweets, and one should not peel and eat an orange in this chamber, either...
...trouble with many of the old idealists, the ones whose influence should now be approaching a peak, is that they have become tough--or perhaps the better word is "hard", and brittle--and soft inside. They are safe from the depredations of new ideas; they find it easier to chew their own fat. The man Mr. Conant is thinking of may have a tender skin, but his nerves are awake and he is well-muscled...
...human race is riddled with worms. They coil and squirm and chew through most of the world's population. When the average man dies, a host of worms dies with him. But wormkind goes wriggling on, to infest his children, reduce their vitality, cause disfiguring sores or swellings, and lower their resistance...