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...with-another-joke style fits the desperate nature of the combat. The young mother who reads it may have a degree in psychology from Michigan State, but as she cleans up after the puppy while trying to separate two children who are fighting over a linty piece of bubble gum, she may not be in the mood for compound-complex sentences. She may smile over a column by Art Buchwald, the master of the discovered absurdity, or one of Russell Baker's elegantly sane demonstrations that the world is crazy. But if she enlists in an army...
...State, George Shultz. "Cap has a point about throw weight," Shultz told his startled and discouraged staff after a meeting with Weinberger. It was almost exactly what Reagan had said more than a year earlier. Burt worked to convince the Secretary of State that throw weight would "just gum...
...child of seven living in the south of England in 1944. Your article brought back memories of truckloads of smiling G.I.s who gave us precious bars of chocolate as well as our first taste of chewing gum. America's sacrifice will be remembered and its G.I.s never forgotten...
...shorn by Jan rather than Don, or the other way round. A regular haircut with nothing fancy is $3, and a "style cut" is $4. A style cut with a shampoo is $7. All children who get their hair cut are given a penny to deposit in the bubble-gum machine. To take to the barber chair in Marshall is to take to the stage before an audience of whittlers...
...Americans, bursting into an England gone drab and gray and plagued with shortages of everything after four years of war, were nothing if not jaunty. Residents of Somerset still remember G.I.s tossing chocolate bars and gum out of passing trucks to goggle-eyed children. According to a popular gag, so much American chewing gum had been tossed in the fountains of London's Trafalgar Square that the pigeons there were laying rubber eggs...