Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Woman's world is giving the sanitary engineers still further challenges. The garbage disposer ("mechanical pig") built into kitchen sinks is overloading city-sewage systems. And the fancy new detergents used in automatic dishwashing gum up the treatment plants: they foam crazily and resist chemical breakdown. This problem of wastes is where the sanitary engineers came in, thousands of years ago. Ahead of them are more turns of the same spiral...
...trade as "sincerity." Crew-cut Garry Moore gets his by half-closing his right eye and crossing his fists in front of his chest; for emphasis he uses the waggling forefinger and the forward head bob. Du Mont's Paul Dixon strikes the folksy note by chewing gum, rubbing his nose and garbling his syntax. Bob Crosby is a hands-in-pockets man, but he also shoots his eyebrows, ducks his head winningly and rocks on heel and toe. His cast struggles to be homespun, and his young singer, Allan Copeland, is loaded with boyish humility...
...took over, almost 20 years ago, he has created considerable wealth in his little (pop. 1,088,000) republic. Some of it has rubbed off on Nicaragua and deserving Nicaraguans. But plenty of it (reportedly as much as $60 million worth) has stuck to Tacho like chewing gum to the sole of a shoe...
When she was a teenager, Barbara Hutton, the five & dime store heiress, was as fat as butter, and slim, gum-chewing daughters of plain people were wont to gaze at her newspaper pictures and cry with feline contentment: "She's got money, but look at that shape." When pretty Barbara grew older, she reduced until her bones showed. Afterward, she was sick a lot. Between bouts in expensive hospitals she wandered wanly around Europe, wearing jewels and Paris dresses and collecting husbands (two princes, one count and Movie Actor Gary Grant) as befitted a member of international society...
There is no place for doubt and thought GUM* sells all a woman needs...