Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like chewing gum, rock 'n' roll and girls in slacks, people's capitalism was unthinkable in prewar Japan. Today, an estimated 6,000,000 Japanese-many of them housewives, factory workers and shopkeepers-own stocks. An average trading day on the Tokyo Exchange sees no fewer than 100 million shares of stock change hands. The trail blazer in this phenomenal growth of stock ownership is a jovial, pipe-chewing kabuya (securities broker) named Tsunao Okumura, who has fought public apathy, occupation forces, and the power of Kabutocho, Japan's Wall Street, to educate the Japanese public...
...kindly old vicar toddles into the men's room at London Airport. But instead of washing his face, he takes it off. He squeegees out his contact eyeball covers, eases out his teeth, removes his grey wig, strips off his forehead and nose like so much tired bubble gum. And quicker than the audience can gasp "Kirk Douglas!", Kirk Douglas starts redisguising himself as a dapper diplomat. From here on, The List of Adrian Messenger becomes less a suspense movie than a guessing game: Who, among the assorted gypsies, crippled pensioners, organ grinders and ban-thefox-hunt ladies...
...with which to wage the old kind of warfare. It is working on a grenade-thrown dye that would mark raiding guerrillas so that they could be identified under a special light when they posed as innocent villagers. It is seeking explosives that stick to a bridge like chewing gum, and has perfected jungle bedrolls secured by adhesive rather than zippers, so that a soldier can jump out quickly under attack...
...start of a brand-new career for you!'' Gus set the man straight with the deflating honesty that comes from long years of living Gus Cannon's life. "No, sir.'' he said, "I'm a yard man. I been rakin' gum balls today before you fellas came over here...
...hireling of the Soviet government, bent on emulating the toadying tactics of Ehrenburg. At the World Youth Festival in Helsinki, where he paraded around in loud Italian silk shirts, Yevtushenko became so incensed at the anti-Communist demonstrations he composed a poem on the spot denouncing the "pimple-faced, gum chewing" students. "If I had not been a Communist before, I would have become one tonight," he said...