Word: gooey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farmer Folke Trana, of Valo, Sweden, was plowing a boggy field when his plow dug out of the gooey dirt a crude wooden dragon's head about a foot long. Farmer Trana was agreeably surprised, but when he reported his find to the State Historical Museum, its experts were delighted. The carved head, they decided, might be part of a "High Seat" of the Viking...
...firm conviction that many Americans, like myself, look upon the sedate mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C. with a kind of reverence, mingled with awe and deep respect. The thought of 30,000 gibbering egg-rollers (TIME, April 13) sloshing over mashed eggs, gooey marshmallows and melted jelly beans, together with comfort stations erected in critical positions, lends an air of cheap revelry to the Executive Mansion. The only things which appeared to be lacking were the Ferris wheels, the sideshows, and the prize county livestock...
...bowled eggs across the greensward; others tossed them high in the air with occasional disasters. The aid station was busy with minor cuts and bruises. Most people just pressed against the fence, peering eagerly at the south portico. By noon, the grounds were a dreadful mass of mashed eggs, gooey chocolate marshmallow, melting jelly beans and picnic midden. Most unexpected casualty: a press photographer lost both shoes...
...lack of meat in the recent chop suey served up by the Central Kitchen. Whether this has been an oversight, an economy measure, or a deliberate plot by a vegetarian chef, it must be rectified. Harvard houses used to serve the best chop suey this aide of Yee Hung Gooey's magnificent restaurant on Oxford Street. But this reputation is sure to vanish if meatless chop suey becomes official policy...
...much interested in painting people. "You don't find people around the street lamps -especially in out-of-the-way places. It'd be phony to put them in. A guy and a gal would distract from the painting-they'd look all gooey and drippy...