Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authorization recommended by its Foreign Relations Committee, Kennedy asked: "Is this nation stating that it cannot afford an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free-an amount less than this country's annual outlay for lipstick, face cream and chewing gum? Are we saying that we cannot help our 19 needy neighbors in Latin America with a greater effort than the Communist bloc is making in the single island of Cuba...
...handing out its stamps in Britain-not the usual S. & H. green stamps, but pink ones because a local stamp rival called Green Shield got there first. In violent opposition, Lord Sainsbury, boss of the big Sainsbury's grocery chain, is preparing to do bitter battle against the gum-backed invaders. In the first skirmish he cut the price of bread, but his chances of holding out are slim. In the U.S. even the mighty A. & P. buckled under after years of resisting...
...famous of his serial portraits are those of screaming pontiffs modeled after a papal commission by Velásquez (see opposite page). Though he has been through Rome, where Pope Innocent X's portrait hangs in the Palazzo Doria-Pamphili, Bacon has never gone to see it. The gum-baring shriek that gapes out of so many of his portraits is copied from a still from Sergei Eisenstein's film of 1925, The Battleship Potemkin, in which a horrified nurse is shot point-blank through her pince-nez. Why these subjects? "They haunt me," Bacon replies...
...distractions to hide mediocrity. The Russians put an individual out there on the dirt floor of the ring, spotlight him, and, presumably, he either excels, or next January-after the circus completes a tour of Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis-he will be selling astrakhans in the GUM store...
...Certainly not," begin the Wrigley ads in Britain's quality newspapers and magazines, agreeing that in court or railway carriage no proper Englishmen should ever think of chewing gum. But the ads go on to reassure gum-shy Britons that at other times, in other places, gum is not only acceptable but "a definite aid to oral hygiene." Far more subdued than Wrigley messages for masticating Americans, the "Certainly not" ads have stepped up sales. They also exemplify a trend toward tailor-made world advertising that is summed up by McCann-Erickson's Brazil Manager Sergio Souza...