Word: gum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heather. New and old hands alike, 85 in all, were part of California's famed Sierra Club, out for a day's hike through the mountains. Their leader, a gangling Sierra surveyor, bluntly laid down the law: no straggling behind, no getting ahead, no smoking, no chewing gum wrappers tossed along the trail. No dogs. And put away those transistor radios...
After comparing orthodontic appliances, the two racket around Manhattan improvising absurd fantasies derived from Little Women and Fu Manchu. In Central Park they pretend to be "two beautiful white nurses" besieged by Chinese bandits. Merrie pokes a wad of bubble gum into Tippy's mouth. Poison. "When they try to ravish us, bite down," she orders. Then the nurses clamber up an escarpment and discover Sellers and Prentiss attempting a rendezvous on the rocks. From then on they bug Sellers, spoiling assignations and complicating the plot. They even scavenge his discarded cigarette butts and wrap them tenderly...
...Last year I stopped smoking. After six months, I wound up an overweight nervous wreck, suffering from compulsive eating habits, extreme tension, unexplained chest cramps, a sudden rush of gum and teeth problems, and facing a costly replacement in clothing. Two months ago, I resumed smoking and the chest and dental problems promptly vanished, I am losing the excess poundage, eat normally, and most of the tension has departed...
...depths of the Depression, Connally's father mustered enough money to send John to the University of Texas, where he studied law, stacked books in the library for 17? an hour, picked up pocket money as college campus representative for Beech-Nut Chewing Gum. He ran for student-body president-mainly because it paid $30 a month-and won. He also met Idanell Brill, a coed who had won such titles as University of Texas Sweetheart, Cactus Beauty and Relay Queen. They were married...
...Gum and Lifesaver sales shot up in the square this week. Haggard faces and bitten nails abounded. Informed sources reported that Cabot Hall had taken to "feminine pipes...