Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...booked" by a gum-chewing, shoulder-holstered detective who looked like he had seen too many TV thrillers. "Over here... Name?... Occupation?... How do you spell seminarian?... Never mind... s-t-u-d-e-n-t..." And Fingerprints. They get about twenty-five of those-that is, if the man doesn't smudge any. We didn't sign much. Somebody just put each of our ink-covered right thumbs on the bottom right-hand corner of everything. Then the mug shots-J. Edgar needs to keep up-to-date photos...
There is something touching in the process by which purely utilitarian things, such as bridges, Model Ts and old penny bubble-gum machines, become vaguely mythical collectors' items. Last week in Britain, the new London Bridge, an unprepossessing rig of steel and concrete, was partially opened, but it was merely a means of getting from one side of the Thames to the other. However authentic the reconstruction in Arizona, the old bridge has vanished; monuments cannot be transplanted. London Bridge without London is, after all, not London Bridge. How does Cochise greet Charles Dickens...
...some reason, are better shots than the men are." Children were used, Calley said, to throw hand grenades or plant mines. He concluded "that it was essential that troops in Viet Nam put out of their minds the World War II and Korean concept of giving candy and chewing gum and things to children. The Communists used that American philosophy against...
...detergent industry continues to defend the use of phosphates, manufacturers are casting about for a substitute cleaning agent. NTA, a nitrogen-based ingredient, seemed briefly promising until it was found to be a potential health hazard. A return to soap chips is not feasible because they would literally gum up the works of most automatic washing machines...
...South Viet Nam. But many other military men do. "Nobody raises an eyebrow now if someone suggests that out in the field, where the arm of military law is relatively relaxed, 90% of all noncareer G.I.s smoke grass," reports TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "It is as common as chewing gum here, and the young officers are smoking it nearly as much as the enlisted...