Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sidekick, Robert, are only sporadically looking to connect. For the most part, they have engineered a working arrangement with hopelessness. They ride from one small, shabby West German town to another, while Bruno repairs equipment in dilapidated movie theaters. The musty dream palaces have turned into mausoleums with chewing gum on the seats...
...First you walk into your chopper door. Then you fall down the ramp of Air Force One. Before you even take office you arrange for the last Democratic President to suggest your inability to chew gum and do much of anything else. Then, when your opponent is all set up, you show up for a campaign debate, leaving your college football helmet at home, and play 90 minutes of What's My Line? without falling on your fanny. Viewers are impressed. You aren't an utter boob after...
Since he began his evening-news spots on Philadelphia's WCAU-TV 16 months ago (after losing a 1974 bid for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination), Denenberg has flayed the makers of more than 150 products, from sedatives to sugarless gum. Horrible Herb, as he is known among his victims, spices his vitriol with humor. One recent broadcast: "I make sure I get my exercise, get enough rest, and eat healthy food. So I don't need Geritol...
Mondale greeted us in his office and immediately led us to the Senate dining room for lunch. Mondale was chewing gum; that's not what the civics books say senators do, but it's typically Mondale--easy going, personable, possessed by an athletic warmth...
...respected his priorities. This past April, while visiting Minneapolis for a job interview, I saw him in the Leamington Hotel downtown. He was greeting florists on their way to a convention in one of the ballrooms. He was in the center of the hotel lobby, smiling, still chewing gum...