Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunny morning in Reno, Barbara Jievute Paulekiute Sears ("Bo-bo") Rockefeller, excitedly chomping gum and convoyed by nine lawyers (only seven hers), two bankers and a pressagent, walked into a judge's chambers. Fourteen minutes later, she emerged as a new proof of an American dream story. After six years of marriage (her second), nearly five of separation, sporadic salvos of parting shots, Bobo, blonde, 37, was no longer the wife of Winthrop Rockefeller, 42. Her record settlement jackpot: $2,000,000 in cash, $3,500,000 in trust funds for herself and little Winnie, 5. One of Rockefeller...
...drill grinds no metal against teeth or gum tissues. Instead, a liquid containing fine particles (usually of aluminum oxide) is forced against the tooth by ultrasonic vibrations (29,000 per sec.) of the Cavitron's tiny steel tip, and these particles neatly bore into the tooth without noise or pressure...
...were almost noiseless, and each was equipped to fire three kinds of bullets: small lead pellets for merely stunning victims, nickeled-steel bullets that proved capable of penetrating 2¼ in. of pine board at 24 ft., and dum-dum slugs smeared with a mixture of potassium cyanide and gum...
...Wonderful Home Run." The game, an unexpected thriller, caught up both Ike and Mamie in the excitement that it provided. By the time Washington took the lead, 3-2, Mr. & Mrs. Eisenhower had each accepted sticks of chewing gum from Griffith. In the third inning, they both had Cokes in paper cups, and Mamie dipped into a box of Cracker Jack as she watched the game. When the Yankees tied it up, 3-3 in the ninth, the excitement in the presidential box mounted perceptibly, and in the tenth, when Washington's Mickey Vernon finally polished off the game...
...just the somber story of a so-so sahib, but a report on a theater of change and conflict. Moreover, in sharp vignettes, Author Lewis shows that the crackle of change in Southeast Asia comes not only from firebrand nationalists and Red fanatics but also from the intellectual bubble gum that the East borrows from the West. At Luang Nakon's leading cabaret, the local version of the Radio City Rockettes wear drum-majorette boots, hussars' hats and nothing else. At the town's boxing matches, the style if not the wording of the billboards is familiar...