Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this very friendliness that has taken Ed Stettinius so far so fast. He calls people by their first names, which he always remembers. He chews gum, smokes cigarets, smiles often. He has an almost pastorlike skill at presiding over meetings. He has a knack of getting people to agree. He leans back, crosses his legs, talks in formally. A caller at his office is greeted like a long-lost brother; Ed sits down facing him, slapping his big hands down on both knees, leaning forward, all interest. He has presence. He is tall, handsome and prematurely white-haired. The color...
...basis of that rather dubious claim to fame, some 20 impressionable newspapers buy her syndicated wares which are presented in a rather fluffy column to attract what we once called the gum-chewing trade...
Damned Spot. In Cincinnati, a sign on a locked cigar store read: "Out of cigars. Out of cigarets. Out of gum. Out of films. Out of stamps. Out of patience. Out of town...
Camel-smokers walked at least a mile for any kind of cigaret; candy-eaters really lost weight for lack of sugar; gum-chewers glumly clumped their jaws on nonresilient chicle. Again & again weary clerks reminded shoppers, as nastily as they could, that there is a war on. Prospects for an early letup were gloomy...
...Wrigley's chewing gum except "Orbit" (made from grade-B chicle), and 75% of Beech-Nut production is going to the armed forces...