Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the pinkish hydraulic fluid spurting in our faces-and with no salad oil aboard to refill the draining hydraulic system-we stopped the leaks with chewing gum, reinforcing our handiwork with Band-Aids from the medical kits...
...find lunchrooms, restaurants, buffets, post offices, savings-bank branches, theater-ticket offices, and rest rooms for mothers and children in Upper Row. It sounded very much like capitalistic Macy's in New York, except that it will all be state run, of course, by a giant outfit called GUM (Government Universal Stores...
...finally made it to Williamsport last week. A few days later, after six teams had been eliminated, the two surviving clubs met in a final game for the world championship. Some 8,500 hoarse fans, burning with World Series fever, ignored such distractions as one catcher's bubble gum continually ballooning out through his mask. Between pitches, his battery mate ballooned back. That was natural enough. This was the annual finale of the Little League, limited to boys of eight to twelve...
...Reichhold has branched out into other fields. A few years ago he went into the manufacture of bonding resins (for plywood, plastics, foundry cores). His chemicals go into refrigerators, glass wool, food boxes, bubble gum...
...premiere ended, Allen sat with his cheeks puffed out like a man who had just missed his train, shuffled his wad of gum to the side of his mouth, and pleaded: "If you don't like the show, for heaven's sake keep quiet until we get the thing fixed...