Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William Wrigley Jr. Company will be introducing in mid-May a soft bubble gum similar to the ever-popular Bubble-Yum, and it will begin a $10 million advertising campaign to promote the new product...
Thomas Sloan, communications director for Wrigley, said yesterday, "The huge advertising campaign is in response to what appears to be an increasingly large demand for bubble gum. We originally thought our market included only juveniles, but now we believe our market includes college-age students as well...
This battle-of-the-sexes takes place against the backdrop of a Chicago nightclub and jazzy be-bop syncopation. The era? When guys packed heaters and goils snapped chewing gum and were referred to as having "gams," instead of legs. People mispronounced words longer than three syllables. Gun molls abounded, and their boyfriends had special revolver pockets fitted into their suits...
Like the banished Jim Woods in Boston, Nelson came with the team, like the stick of gum with a pack of baseball cards--the game of baseball changes and, as inconceivable as a Met season without him sounds, opening day is April 2. It's opening day number 18 for the Mets, the first ever without Lindsey Nelson...
...bath of broth. We had the sweet variety, although you can order it salted as well. Another of Shanghai's sweet soups is the sesame rice ball. This is a very sweet broth containing one-inch dough balls filled with sesame seeds. They have the consistency of bubble gum and could choke even the most flexible esophagus. Keep away! If you don't like sweet things, be careful. Shanghai really sugars their stuff...