Word: chews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Princeton's college-boy lingo, Bill Bradley, 20, is known as a "straight arrow"-meaning, says a classmate, that "he is just what his parents think he is." He does not drink or smoke or chew. He studies seven hours a day for a B average, goes to Presbyterian church on Sunday and polishes off by teaching Sunday school. That would be enough to set him apart on most campuses, but there is more: he is the first All-America basketball player in Princeton's history, and quite possibly the best college player in the game...
Everybody knows that the back-room politicians who really run things are big and fat and chew cigars, right? And Jesse Unruh, 41, is the back-room boss of California's Democratic Party. So at 5 ft. 11 in., he should weigh about 277 lbs., have a 48-in. waist and leave cigars in shreds. Well, that's just how he was until he decided he didn't like the way the image fit. Or maybe it was the clothes. First, he chucked the cigars, then he cut out drinking and went on a diet...
...Watson in concerned "we bit off more than we could chew with that decision...
...Wanderer, and John Knowles's A Separate Peace. No one, at any rate, excels Grass in one prerequisite for writing about adolescence-an eye for the entirely incongruous and often grimy details. On a half-submerged minesweeper in Danzig harbor, Mahlke and his classmates cheerfully chew dried seagull droppings and spit them contentedly into the sea. The next moment, before diving to explore the sunken hulk, Mahlke is reverently humming prayers of praise to the Virgin Mary...
...teacher used to be afraid to smoke, chew, cuss or ask for a raise. Now he denounces crowded classrooms, upbraids lawmakers, and goes on strike almost as readily as a dockworker. He even demands a say in things that school boards always considered their sole province. Teacher militancy is busting out all over...