Word: chews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Historians. The Hinge of Fate covers the period December 1941-June 1943. Already it is clear that more than any other individual thus far-whether participant, recorder, or pure raconteur-Writer Churchill has given historians their richest cud to chew. No man, not even F.D.R. or Stalin, was so central to events or so frequently determined their course. If his history is not the last word on the events it describes, it is certainly the best foundation now in sight for the last word when it is written...
...education, what to do about Tito, what to do about Formosa. Before his guests arrive, an "intellectual task force" of scholars will chum out background research. When the assemblymen have talked their way through the problems, their conclusions will be published for the rest of the U.S. to chew...
...Parade's End Ford tried, like Tolstoy in War and Peace, to bite off and somehow chew a massive chunk of social history. It was Ford's belief that the industrial revolution had broken the back of the traditional England and that World War I had given the coup de grâce. In the struggles and frustrations of one Christopher Tietjens (a name almost as un-English as Hueffer), Ford tried to express the gradual destruction of a way of life for which (as Ford Student Robie Macauley puts it) "the world is an equable and logical...
...Pennsville, N.J., some 26 finalists prepared to jam large pink lumps of bubble gum into their mouths and see-for the prize of a U.S. Savings Bond-who can blow the biggest bubble. They have two minutes to do it in, plus an initial ten seconds to get the chew started. The "world championship" contest was designed to help promote the bubble gum industry, a $20 million a year business. Philadelphia alone exports each week 25 tons of gum to Japan, the Philippines, Italy, Hawaii-places which during World War II felt the cultural impact...
Bubble gum, bubble gum, chew and blow...