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Word: gummed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Option C: Send in an undercover team to distribute free brownies, chocolate bars, candy corn, and other foodstuffs to the guilty parties in order to promote tooth decay and gum disease...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Lords of Discipline | 11/13/1986 | See Source »

...came out of the store laden with butterscotch candies, gum, Vermont maple candy and other goodies. At a later stop, she walked out of a donut store loaded down with a dozen chocolate and cinnamon donut holes, apple muffins and assorted regular donuts. On our last stop before the final dash to Cambridge, she stopped at a grocery store and bought more gum and some...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: An Autumnal Adventure: Foliage in Vermont | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

...Gambino Soldier Dominick Lofaro, 56, was arrested in upstate New York on heroin charges. Facing a 20-year sentence, he agreed to become a Government informant. Investigators wired him with a tiny microphone taped to his chest and a miniature cassette recorder, no bigger than two packs of gum, that fitted into the small of his back without producing a bulge. Equipped with a magnetic switch on a cigarette lighter to activate the recorder, Lofaro coolly discussed Gambino family affairs with the unsuspecting Gotti brothers. Afterward he placed the tapes inside folded copies of the New York Times business section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting the Mafia | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...almost enough to take one back to the days when Gerald Ford fell off a plane ramp and Americans began wondering about their President. Had he forgotten to wear his football helmet back in college? Could he walk and chew gum at the same time? First, Ford nonchalantly knocked a tape recorder off the lectern while making a speech. Next, he and Edward Bennett Williams crashed into each other as the Washington attorney was leaving the podium. Once when a plate smashed to the floor, Ford's spokesman Bob Barrett took the microphone to tell the room, "That wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pratfalls of the Presidency | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...single hole in the Los Angeles Open. That's the first one he mentions. Once in Paris, Palmer drove a ball off the Eiffel Tower and hit a bus. "Close to 400 yds.," he boasts, "mostly straight down." Another time, in Melbourne, he climbed a 20- ft. gum tree to play a backward iron shot -- a "tree-iron," as he pronounced it -- and made a bloody wonderful bogey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Aces and a King | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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