Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having blandly appropriated the defeated Malenkov's consumer-goods program, he promised 250 branches of Moscow's huge GUM Department Store in the capital's outskirts and is building 20 blocks of apartment buildings to give some of the elite's rising expectations a little houseroom. Said one proud engineer: "It is time for others to think of us as other than backward. We are moving, and Khrushchev is helping us move...
...earth. The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays was an instructive hour, much less vulgar in its popularization than Hemo the Magnificent, but it could have done with less sugar-coating ("These science dicks will knock ya for a loop!"), even for the sweet tooth of the bubble-gum brigade...
...Middle East to destroy Arab nationalism. It reported that a U.S. diplomat in New Delhi tried to steal the Taj Mahal jewels in hopes of inciting a Hindu-Moslem race riot. The newspaper Al Kahira characterized the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles as "a sadist," and Al Gum-huria called him a "madman...
...from the tersest reasons, e.g., "Suez," "John Foster Dulles," to full-scale defenses of Americans by British admirers. He concluded last week that Americans would be better liked in Britain if they "would stop spending money, talking loudly in public places, telling the British who won the war, chewing gum [and would] dress properly, throw away their cameras, move their air bases out of England, settle the desegregation problem, turn over the hydrogen bomb to Britain, put the American woman in her proper place, not export rock 'n' roll, and speak correct English...
...everybody out. The place is on strike,' and they would all run out and sign up." There was an occasional virulent clash of words. New York's Senator Irving Ives blew up as a jug-eared Manhattan lawyer buzzed the ear of his gum-chewing client, tough Anthony Topazio. Said Ives: "It's high time he learned to talk...