Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dick Clark used to hand out big green buttons with white lettering on his show, which was sponsored by Beech-Nut Gum. What four-letter word was printed on the buttons...
...leaflets. Six days earlier, two young Italian students, Teresa Marinuzzi, 22, and Valtenio Tacchi, 23, handcuffed themselves to a railing in Moscow's downtown TSUM department store and tossed similar leaflets at astonished shoppers. The episode was almost identical with a protest staged last October at the GUM department store, for which two Scandinavian students were deported...
...called neo-fascist in some European countries. But their chief interest is in protesting violations of civil liberties. The Belgian student represented an organization called the Flemish Action Committee for Eastern Europe. Scandinavia's SMOG (a Russian acronym for Courage, Youth, Sincerity and Genius) sponsored October's GUM demonstration and the one in Leningrad last week. Both groups, and several others, are in touch with Rome's Movimento Europa Civilta, whose Eagle Scout approach to political regeneration includes weekend camping trips and karate practice in the mountains. It was Europa Civilta that sponsored the TSUM caper...
...took it with a grease-smeared hand and wheeled around towards the credit-card press as my friend got back into the driver's seat. There was a little happy talk in the back seat about the utter foulness of the bathroom and nickels lost forever in the fucking gum machine. The gas station attendant came to the driver's window with the credit-card on a receipt-board...
like bubble gum...