Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale University's President A. Whitney Griswold gave a University of Georgia audience his thumbnail summary of the state of culture in the U.S. Said he: "Culture is being lost among oxidized jukeboxes and television sets and petrified bubble gum." Furthermore, he added, "We are the best informed nation in the world, with the most primitive ideas of what to do with the knowledge...
...actress were presented sharply and adroitly in All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard. Nor is Bette Davis disappointing: she shrieks, she bellows, she rolls her prodigious eyes. But this time the script is as aged as its heroine, and The Star, with a lack of biting satire, can only gum its way through a dim Hollywood adventure...
Through the streets they pranced, gorgeous and irrepressible, beating drums, blowing horns, hopping over the open sewers to the tune of the Third Man Theme played by a marching Dixieland band, sometimes dancing a quaint, shuffling samba, some balancing trays of chewing gum and candies on their heads...
...topflight performer in her own right. Working in his spine-jarring sport where broken arms & legs are commonplace, Tompkins has only had one real injury: a pulled thigh ligament. The enforced month's layoff ("I knew I wouldn't be at my best") made nervous, gum-chewing Tompkins edgier than ever, kept him out of action just long enough to lose the bull-riding title...
...first place, said Chemist Corwin, little is known about the action of true chlorophyll in the human body, and most of the technical literature on the subject is full of myths. Anyhow, the material used by manufacturers of green pills, chewing gum, toothpaste and mouthwash is not natural chlorophyll: it has been altered chemically and sometimes contains copper. Much of it is labeled "copper chlorophyllin," and even this is a misnomer, said Corwin, because a "phyllin" is a magnesium derivative; when copper replaces the magnesium, it's something else again...