Word: chews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japan, where borrowed Western ways become Nipponized in no time, the latest national cult is gum chewing. The great chewalong has quadrupled gum consumption in five years, making it Japan's third favorite sweet, after chocolates and caramels. No fewer than 43 manufacturers are turning out gamu, as it is called, and they have already popularized 150 flavors, including such tangy new taste sensations as green tea, gin fizz and pickled plum. In the interests of more mannerly mastication, the manufacturers have even prescribed a code of gummanship (cardinal rule: never chew when addressing your elders), plan to install...
Though it seemed hardly necessary, a new organization called the Let's Chew More Gum Association opened offices this month in Tokyo. The opening, attended by politicians, baseball stars and showfolk, went as smoothly as a cathedral service-which, in a way, it was. Highlight of the première was a special prayer intoned by a Shinto priest standing before a kind of altar to gamu. Excerpts...
...program with ads. For most of its 78 years, that was all it was. Its creator, a New York printer named Frank V. Strauss, started in 1884 with a one-page flyer, pretentiously titled The New York Dramatic Chronicle, that gave theatergoers little more than the cast, inappropriate ads (CHEW WHITE'S YUCATAN GUM) and, by way of editorial fare, bad jokes ("The hen is not a cheerful fowl: it broods a great deal...
...grotesque buffoon called Nekrozotar, dressed something like a frogman, with huge teeth painted over his upper and lower jaws. "Aiee," cried Nekrozotar. "Smoke, froth, snort: animal! Make way for death! Shake the bells, set up altars, light candles, spray holy water, gnash your teeth, cry with bloody tears, chew ashes, devour each other, kiss each other, go to the left, go to the right, go up, go down, burn incense. The old world is going to perish. Hiue...
...official report card from his first term at his father's old school in Scotland, spartan Gordonstoun, where cold showers and sprints before breakfast are the rule. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 13, "was near the top in a class of 28," said Headmaster F.R.G. Chew. "Good average is the phrase-and he has settled in jolly well." The headmaster cleared up another point: the other kids call him Charles...