Word: gum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Looking out of the window, this seems true. Two teens with elaborate hairdos and gum-cracking grins joke in Spanish with a Black man. An Asian man and woman disappear into Ryles' Jazz Bar. A lesbian couple chats with the local...
After bringing his team from a 10-0 halftime deficit to a 14-10 fourth quarter advantage, Bledsoe got a kick in the teeth yesterday and still bounded back to snatch (gum?) victory from the jaws of defeat. I saw the Patriot defense, which, I should mention, is not the strongest in the league, crumple with less than five minutes left. That defense allowed Brett Favre to march 73 yards downfield for a touchdown, a 14-10 lead and a paltry 1:14 on the clock...
...when Ted was elected for the first time," Romney said Tuesday night. "At that time the problem we had in schools was kids chewing gum, now it's kids shooting guns...
...Braamfonteinspruit is a small river that cuts southward through Johannesburg's northern suburbs -- and through Parkmore, where the Carters once lived. At around 9 p.m., Kevin Carter backed his red Nissan pickup truck against a blue gum tree at the Field and Study Center. He had played there often as a little boy. The Sandton Bird Club was having its monthly meeting there, but nobody saw Carter as he used silver gaffer tape to attach a garden hose to the exhaust pipe and run it to the passenger-side window. Wearing unwashed Lee jeans and an Esquire T shirt...
...simply, extremes in classical music are no longer in vogue. The casual classical music public is no longer fascinated with the blatant neuroticism and psychic distress found in Mahler, for example, but seeks relatively non-offensive music. The unsubtle may call it chewing gum for the mind, but both Gorecki's symphony and Deutsche Grammophon's recent effort contain very real musical gems...