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...Well, I really did feel I had every right in the world to resist the insipid protocol of turning my private life into the kind of running serial you find on bubble-gum wrappers. You can't just take sensitive parts of yourself and splatter them around like so much popcorn butter. Personal freedom has always been terribly important to me, and I have carried aloofness as a sort of banner to my sense of freedom...
Glass in the Gum. Such biweekly settos are a "reformed" remnant of medieval tournaments in which Thai warriors jousted with sword and lance from the backs of elephants. Once a man was unseated, the fight was finished on foot, without weapons. After a while Thais stopped bothering with elephants and did all their scrapping hand to hand. Fighters took to wrapping their fists and forearms with cotton twine, dipping the resulting gauntlets into gum and sprinkling them liberally with broken glass. Before a fight, the gum was allowed to harden until a man's arm became a club. There...
They Stand Accused (Thurs. 8 p.m., Du Mont) had an earlier four-year run on TV, which ended in 1952. It has begun again where it left off with the same hesitant direction, the overacting by bit-players (one blonde actress all but snapped her gum at the defense attorney), and the startled looks of other actors who unexpectedly find themselves on camera. The hour-long show attempts to simulate the drama of the courtroom, using real lawyers from the Illinois bar and having twelve members of the studio audience serve as jury. Sometimes the cases are interesting in themselves...
...staid Germans, who find gum-chewing G.I.s and tourists unspeakably schrecklich, the German Medical Association had a shocking announcement. Despite the bad effect of sugar coating, "Chewing inspires the flow of saliva and thereby improves the teeth-cleaning process. [It] makes teeth more sound, now that people no longer eat hard food or chew their food thoroughly...
Next day Dr. Summerskill poked through Moscow's maternity hospital and the new GUM department store, which she found "absolutely terrific." At Moscow's towering new university building, Nye Bevan asked the Russian provost if Communism was a compulsory course. It was. "Suppose," persisted Nye, "that I did not want to take Communism?" The provost smiled broadly. "You would take it anyway," he said...