Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rained on as Chancellor Adenauer raised the West Germans' new flag of sovereignty for the first time. In Paris, where Dulles, Britain's Macmillan, France's Pinay and eleven other NATO foreign ministers received der Alte in their midst, I sat on a wad of gum. In Vienna, the suit got soaked again in the rain that fell while Molotov was signing the Austrian State Treaty. And here in Belgrade, it got covered with dust on the ride from the airport behind Tito and Khrushchev. Poor suit. It's a mess...
...group ... He integrates the smaller, selfish goals of individuals into larger, more social and spiritual objectives for the group . . . Conflicts are resolved by relating the immediate to the long-range and more enduring values." Faced with this assignment of relating his product to his God, many a chewing gum manufacturer, comic-book publisher, movie distributor or banker might well fall to his knees. But, says Ohmann, this would all be to the good...
...book," then had a lively conversation about conversation while more than a million people listened. Talk is cheap, the three decided, but conversation has a different price tag on it. "There must be mind in talk to make it conversation," said Moderator Bryson. "Television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes," said Critic Brown. "A conversation has to be more than just chewing gum or wastage." Essayist Fadiman urged intellectual exercise. "You can cultivate the conversational muscles as you can cultivate the muscles that enable you to play golf or tennis," he suggested...
...YOUNG LOVERS, by Julian Halevy (313 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $3.50), plants the seed of love on the sidewalks of Manhattan and watches it sprout amid the chewing-gum wrappers like a blade of grass between slabs of city concrete. Eddie Slocum and Pamela Oldenburg are waiflike 20-year-olds who meet in the subway. Eddie is a college student who shares a Greenwich Village walk-up with a couple of buddies and goes through a local education factory as mechanically as if he were an IBM card being punched for semester credits. Nicknamed "The Groper," Eddie has a case...
...shadow-boxing whenever and wherever the fancy strikes him. His blond hair has silvered satisfactorily, and his craggily handsome face is tanned and as well-creased as an heirloom Gladstone bag. Goodie gave up smoking after he got ulcers; instead, he chews up to two packs of Doublemint gum a day. He drinks sparingly, and, like many Californians, he is a health-food addict. One of his favorite beverages: cabbage juice...