Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditional school I came from, you just sat at a desk copying from a book and all that junk. It was a big game to see if you could chew bubble gum all day and sometimes stick it on your nose without the teacher noticing. Here you learn responsibility...
...baffling, Perhaps that's the best way to describe working at the CRIMSON. At first I felt I should chew gum and wear spike heels. To my relief that was not required or even expected. I could wear blue jeans and be myself although a somewhat foggy version. But oh the pain of the subtler forms of secretarial stereotype. Wouldn't it be easier, I have often thought, had it been clear from the cutest that I was going to be eaten alive, instead of being forced to sift ambiguities of kindly but well aimed jests? Consider the following secretarial...
...dark brown waters of the Okefenokee Swamp keeps the secrets of another eon. This is Georgia's black belt, where slaves worked cotton in the loamy soil and the plantation aristocracy held sway. Cotton is gone now, replaced by peanuts and the silent agriculture of Georgia pines oozing gum for turpentine...
...Stones are about to move into their new, $30,000 four-bedroom home on a gum-tree-shaded site overlooking the middle reach of Sydney harbor. "My last trip to the U.S. showed me for sure that we lead a good life here," he remarked one morning last week. "In Columbus," he said, "old friends were afraid to let their kids go downtown to a movie." At that moment his twelve-year-old daughter Klay was shopping alone in downtown Sydney. "They no longer seemed to know the answers to their problems," Stone continued. "Once, for every American problem, there...
...format of the text, so that time and the fairly simple plot are frequently interrupted by little extrapolative scenes. This is a hazardous technique, for such material must have an independent value great enough to warrant stopping the action of the play. A ballet parody between a tutu-ed, gum-chewing thief and a pointey-tailed, devil's-horned Jonathan Wild works well. An improvised illustrated lecture on the famous escape of Jack Sheppard from Newgate, given by Jack himself, is brilliant. The gyrating, record-dispensing rock star who sings a "ballad" about Jack is painful, and stands...