Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stating that leadfoil was needed for radiation-resistant insulation, the Society urged students to save gum and cigarette wrappers. By nightfall about a wastebasketful had been collected, the Society reported...
...asked him to "cease talking so loudly." Sir Stafford suffered another interruption. Tory Robert Boothby broke in: "Is it in order for an honorable member to peel and eat an orange during the debate?" Solemnly the Chair ruled: "In this chamber one does not smoke, one does not chew gum, one does not eat chocolate and sweets, and one should not peel and eat an orange in this chamber, either...
Labor and management will reach "a stable industrial relationship" on their own "unless the so called statesmen in Washington gum up the works," it was predicted last night by Clinton S. Golden at the law School Forum in Sanders Theater. Golden, long a top policy maker in the CLO and now counsellor to the United Steelworkers, shared the platform with Leo Wolman, professor of labor relations at Columbia, in discussing the topic. "The Causes of Industrial Strikes...
Southerners had adopted Buicks and bubble gum, telephones and two-pants suits, and even hired college athletes from Pittsburgh. But there was still a South the rest of the U.S. could not quite understand. That South loved buffoons, corny oratory and the smell of violence; its prophets were demagogues like "Tom Tom" Heflin, Huey Long, Senator Bilbo and the late governor-elect of Georgia, turkey-necked "Old Gene" Talmadge. Last week it got a new one-at least temporarily. Old Gene's heavy-lidded, 33-year-old son Herman (pronounced Hummon) claimed that he was now the governor...
Modern man has developed innumerable devices for blowing himself up, giving himself bad eyesight, high blood pressure, flat feet, nervous indigestion, and ossification of the brain. He has produced an atom bomb and a panty girdle, the vitamin pill, the comic book, the subway gum machine, the soap opera and the revolving door. But in the minds of thousands of New Yorkers all of these achievements pale when compared to the Fifth Avenue...