Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Panama's vocabulary contains only a part of the Americanisms that have invaded the everyday Spanish of the Isthmus, mainly by infiltration from the English-speaking Canal Zone. Other beachheads, on subjects ranging from elegant eating (at a dinerdans) to economic blockade (boicot), include chingongo (chewing gum), guachiman (watchman), daim (dime), bichicomer, the verbs blofear (to bluff) and quidnapear, the meaningful noun...
...also announced a cut in some corporate taxes, then set about wiping out or paring down excise and luxury taxes. The 15% travel tax on plane and rail fares and the tax on sleeping-car berths were dropped. So were taxes on long-distance telephone calls, telegrams, soda pop, gum and candy. The 25% tax on jewelry was shifted from retailer to wholesaler and reduced to 10% (immediate effect: retail stocks of jewelry were tax-free...
...first Houses to pack its common room with television spectators, and the first to campaign for an automatic launderer in the basement. It has a complete darkroom, harbors a wobbly ping-pong table, and has a fellow in the lobby who sells magazines, candy, and gum...
...Chicago suburb, 14-year-old Roberta Lee Mason rescued four brothers & sisters. But she was burned so badly that she had to be swathed in bandages from head to foot. Her throat-catching picture (TIME, Feb. 28) made front pages across the U.S. Soon money, clothes, even chewing gum began to pour in; everybody wanted to "do something for Roberta." But what the Masons needed was a new house...
...American Airlines gravely announced that its passengers "will be encouraged to munch peppermint candies" instead of chewing gum, the traditional way to overcome ear discomfort. American's medical department found, in "a careful investigation," that candy works just as well...