Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gum!" At an exhibit of tropical plants, the President encountered the alligator, a three-footer from Florida. When the attendant said that the grinning reptile would bite, the President backed up. "Well," he said, "he's not going to bite me, by gum...
...Mountaineers into the N.C.A.A. playoffs by beating George Washington University almost singlehanded. In a tense overtime period, Hot Rod had really turned it on. He fired a foul shot-and sank it-from behind his back. With time running out, he stood there, calmly chomping on his bubble gum while he twirled the ball on the tip of his banana-broad fingers. When two G.W. defenders moved in on him, he rolled the basketball down his back and flipped away an accurate left-handed pass. Driven to distraction, one G.W. player waited impatiently till he got his hands...
...difficult. What good, for instance, is a death certificate written on the bark of a baobab tree along a branch of the upper Zambezi? So WHO decided that what it needed was something like the U.S. income-tax collector's 1040-A-a short form that nobody can gum...
...against the window of the landing plane, saw the huge crowd below and muttered. "Oh, no!" When he emerged, the bobby-soxers shrilled, "We want Frankie!" while 10,000 fans fought for positions. One well-dressed woman kicked off her shoes and started climbing a wire fence as the gum-chewing singer hurried off to a 75-minute press conference. It might have been 1945 in the U.S., when Frankie was the teen-age rage, but it was 1955 in Sydney, Australia...
...students, says Semana, and from the well-to-do suburbs. They wear blue jeans, sweaters and moccasins (though mostly at home), they must dance well, and "cultivate at least five of the following tastes : comics, spaceship adventure books, U.S. jazz, iced soft drinks, the movies, the radio, sports, chewing gum or hot-rods." Most notably, they must know the vocabulary. Samples: "phantasmagoric," "atomic" or "pyramidal" (for great), "pineapple" and "mango" (for a kiss), "curse of the green turkey buzzard" and "horror, horror, three times horror!" (as all-purpose exclamations of surprise or distaste...