Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reading Suspects is like compulsively picking chewing gum off the underside of a theater seat. Thomson piles unsavoriness upon unsavoriness: murders, betrayals, secrets and low-budget aphorisms like "People in movies have a sensational now about them and a mysterious past...
...rule it out." "You're saying maybe you're taking something that has the side effect of impairing memory." "Either I'm taking something and I don't remember or I'm not taking something and I don't remember. My life is either or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium steps." "Sounds like a boring life." "I hope it lasts forever," she said...
Wherever I go, it follows me, like a piece of bubble gum stuck to my heel, bringing humiliation and discomfort with...
Only tradition-minded Topps, which also refrains from picturing players in off-beat poses, still includes bubble gum...
Baseball cards were first sold in cigarette packs in the 1880s and with bubble gum beginning in 1933. They began drawing more fans in 1981, when Fleer and Donruss started issuing cards to challenge Topps Chewing Gum Inc., of Brooklyn, the biggest manufacturer. Card production among the companies has zoomed like a pop fly, from an estimated 500 million a year in the late 1970s to 1.5 billion this year...