Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first, cards came as promotions with tobacco, candy, meat, and cookies, but the manufacturers endeared themselves to generations of traders, flippers, and hoarders by including gum. The horrible, brittle pink slab takes about five minutes to break in, chews well for four, and then makes your jaw hurt more than two hours parked on Inspiration Point...
Other stops on this delightful tour include gazes at what the Bay of Pigs did for the Bigs, the pleasures of stadium collecting (specifically for those who have thrown out their bubble gum cards), the difference between those who watch batting practice and those who don't, and Boswell's own youth, in which his father, who worked at the Library of Congress, smuggled him into a dingy corridor and told him. "Okay, Here is every book on baseball ever written Don't go blind." Amusing and fascinating as well are brief sketches of many of the sport's characters...
...wearing silk, the dry cleaner loved me. When I was wearing white cotton, the Chinese laundry loved me. Now I have a $300 chamois dress and, you know, it's hand washable. It's also great for cleaning records." Some leather buffs use an art gum eraser on stains, while others maintain that leather should be permitted, like a fine old wine, to mellow, undisturbed. Calvin Klein agrees. He has been wearing the same Calvin Klein suede shirt for more than five years...
...collection of hip-slimming homilies to which Christie subscribes. Most of the diet tips were standard. Avoid mayonnaise, butter, margarine, oil and salad dressings, drink lots of water and no more than two glasses of wine a day. Christie, who weighs in at 124 Ibs., does not chew gum, so she chomps on raw vegetables. She makes another exception. "I prefer champagne to wine," says Christie. "The bubbles fill you up more...
...conversation in the grand, neoclassic Beethoven dining room of Bonn's 18th century Redoute palace hushed as the ailing, 74-year-old guest rose ponderously from his chair. While his host, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, unceremoniously popped a stick of chewing gum into his mouth, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev began to deliver his first public statement since President Ronald Reagan offered to cancel deployment of new U.S.-built nuclear missiles in Western Europe if the Soviets would dismantle the counterparts in their growing arsenal...