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Word: gummed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charm of our suite is of a different nature: it comes from the preponderance of wires and masking tape covering every otherwise-spare surface. We thought that poster gum might look better than masking tape, but it just didn't hold the wire...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: The Politics of Phony Solutions | 10/31/1989 | See Source »

...hope, however, is not lost. In true Hollywood fashion, the heroine enters to save the day. Michelle Pfeiffer stumbles in, three hours late, with broken shoes and a mouthful of chewing gum. She is Suzie Diamond, an entrancing former employee of the Triple A Escort Service. Tired of being the glittering wrist ornament of shoe vendors and lug-wrench magnates, Suzie hopes a nightclub microphone can lead her to a better life...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Torch Song Trio | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

...warned a meeting of top Communist Party leaders that any official at any level who was not prepared to man the barricades would be purged. He had already proved his seriousness by ousting Leningrad party chief Yuri Solovyov and attacking the party organization there for "chewing the same stale gum" and resisting reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Riding a Dangerous Wave | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

That leads to a lovely shot of dingbat Peters wheeling down a dirt road, radio blasting, with funny money blowing out of the back of the car. She has one foot on the dashboard, and bubble-gum bubbles are popping out of her funny little rosebud mouth, right there in the middle of her funny big custard-pie face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dippy Harry | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...marker for your message board has run out of ink. Your poster gum doesn't stick anymore. The plant you bought from PBH has withered and died...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Breakin' Out 'Til Next Year | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

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