Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deal, I though. That was the year the Red Sox dropped their first ten games and Jose Santiago was launched into that nameless baseball obscurity, on the fringe of memory, tossed in the stacks of bubble gum card limbo with Pumpsy Green and Jose Tartibull. Only a die-hard, hungry Boston carnivore like me, a Red Sox fan since childhood, would remember these names--these extinguished hopes of the past...
...course, intellectually employed at home. It doesn't matter that I could spend my time catching up on reading I will have to do when I return to Harvard. When at home, relax. My search for mental bubble gum begins with television, a narcotic I deny myself while at school. I am an old movie fanatic. After 11:30 p.m., the television ether ripples with old, older and oldest movies. A good evening at home starts with a rapid scan of the good old New York Times T.V. section for cinematic gems and ends in the wee hours while...
...House, who is likewise not noted as a heavy hitter). Delahanty, meanwhile, had the poor judgement to end his career by getting drunk and strolling off a train trestle during a blizzard. Not exactly the type of ballplayers you'd want to trade your precious 1957 Willie Mays bubble-gum cards for; but to listen to some folks, they're the cream of the crop...
...Puts his gum in little girls' hair...
...tales of the Music Hall's Boswells are almost uniformly impacted with numbers purporting to measure every major, minor, relevant and irrelevant aspect of the plant. The printed record aches with such data as the number of miles of film projected yearly (5,000). the quantity of gum once scraped nightly from underneath 6,200 velvet-covered seats (20 Ibs.); the number of stops on the thundering Mighty Wurlitzer (375); the number of light bulbs (25,000); the weight of the chandeliers (two tons); and, naturally, the improbable dimensions of the stage (144 ft. wide, 67 ft. deep...