Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glass in the Gum. Such biweekly settos are a "reformed" remnant of medieval tournaments in which Thai warriors jousted with sword and lance from the backs of elephants. Once a man was unseated, the fight was finished on foot, without weapons. After a while Thais stopped bothering with elephants and did all their scrapping hand to hand. Fighters took to wrapping their fists and forearms with cotton twine, dipping the resulting gauntlets into gum and sprinkling them liberally with broken glass. Before a fight, the gum was allowed to harden until a man's arm became a club. There...
They Stand Accused (Thurs. 8 p.m., Du Mont) had an earlier four-year run on TV, which ended in 1952. It has begun again where it left off with the same hesitant direction, the overacting by bit-players (one blonde actress all but snapped her gum at the defense attorney), and the startled looks of other actors who unexpectedly find themselves on camera. The hour-long show attempts to simulate the drama of the courtroom, using real lawyers from the Illinois bar and having twelve members of the studio audience serve as jury. Sometimes the cases are interesting in themselves...
...staid Germans, who find gum-chewing G.I.s and tourists unspeakably schrecklich, the German Medical Association had a shocking announcement. Despite the bad effect of sugar coating, "Chewing inspires the flow of saliva and thereby improves the teeth-cleaning process. [It] makes teeth more sound, now that people no longer eat hard food or chew their food thoroughly...
Next day Dr. Summerskill poked through Moscow's maternity hospital and the new GUM department store, which she found "absolutely terrific." At Moscow's towering new university building, Nye Bevan asked the Russian provost if Communism was a compulsory course. It was. "Suppose," persisted Nye, "that I did not want to take Communism?" The provost smiled broadly. "You would take it anyway," he said...
...Chicago and Los Angeles and published every Thursday, the new 25? magazine ($7.50 a year) has a full-color picture of a night baseball game in Milwaukee's County Stadium on the cover of its first issue. Inside are articles on everything from "The Battle of the Bubble Gum" ("The weapons are baseball players, the prize, millions of young Americans") to "The New Golden Age of Sport," a survey by the editors, who found that in sports "the Fabulous '503 are likely to replace the Golden...