Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Basic American. In Johannesburg, South Africa, an old lady, sitting opposite a gum-chewing U.S. soldier in a suburban train, smiled amiably, finally leaned forward and said apologetically: "It's very kind of you to talk to me, sir, but I am stone-deaf...
...their headquarters. And if they happen to be busy with their own division commanders, he waits until they get through. Although he despises traffic jams, he never allows his driver to sound his siren. He likes cricket, maps, horses, detective stories, dislikes paper work and people who chew gum, has no interest in music or art. A bachelor, he lives with a brother in Sussex when he is in England...
...Ears. In New Mexico, when an airline hostess passed out chewing gum with the routine instruction "For the ears," a lady passenger later complained: "It worked all right, but couldn't you use something not so sticky...
...World War I." As if emboldened by this first faint criticism of De Gaulle at home, some of the U.S. press lashed out at the French provisional leader. Said the gum-chewing New York Daily News, which does not like foreigners anyhow: "Gen. de Gaulle should have been glad to come 200 miles on his knees...
...star player got a front tooth kicked out in the last quarter of a tight game. The nerve was exposed and quivering, but the player begged Alex to keep him in the game. Alex finally gave in, took a wad of chewing gum from his own mouth and plastered the jumping nerve. The player finished the game, with third-stringers furiously chewing gum on the sidelines, at Alex's order, to keep the star supplied with packing...