Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army. In Tokyo, Pfc. William C. Smith, an MP on duty at the war crimes trials, contritely apologized for sticking chewing gum in former Premier Hideki Tojo's earphones...
...Amenities. In Vancouver, B.C., a stickup man entered Glen Holm's cigar-store and 1) took $63 from the cash register, 2) ordered a package of gum, 3) paid for it with a $2 bill, 4) got his change and left...
Twenty years ago such a bloomer would have raised a Grade A scandal. But today, in the era of the Big Lie, the collapse of Protocol M was rather like the bursting of a bubble-gum balloon. One reason was that, even if Protocol M was itself a forgery, its contents squared with probable Communist aims and tactics. But Sulzberger put his finger on another, bigger reason: "This incident is characteristic of one phase of the present-day nervousness and suspicion in Europe. A network of forgers and falsifiers-some clever and some not-are busily peddling allegedly secret documents...
...paneled Park Avenue office one morning last week, Manhattan Adman Emerson Foote chewed gum and chain-smoked Lucky Strikes while he waited impatiently for the reporters to crowd into his press conference. Then he quietly dropped his bombshell. He announced that high-powered Foote, Cone & Belding, Inc. had resigned its $12,000,000-a-year account as advertising agent for The American Tobacco...
Inflater. Chicago's Leaf Brands, Inc. began marketing bubble gum in colors-red, yellow, blue. By chewing two or three pieces of "Rain-bio" at the same time, said the announcement, children will be able to blow bubbles "in all the delicious colors of the rainbow...