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Word: gummed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is just one facet of The Plan--Plan Azev to be precise--that threatens to sap America's international influence. This KGB grand design includes infiltrating Western governments with moles--double agents--who do things like conveying classified documents through microdots on the back of chewing gum wrappers sent in packages to orphans in East Germany. No kidding...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Don't Touch That Story--It's Unpatriotic | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...hire Land Rovers, retrievers, gamekeepers, beaters and expert loaders who keep the guns charged, can cost about $25,000 a week. Even a week's stay at a modest inn costs more than $4,000. Then there is the required costume: "plus twos" (knickerbockers), heavy woolen socks, cleated gum boots, a Husky weatherproofed coat and a snug tweed cap. The sportsman also needs evening clothes and funds for the native libation. And the gun must have his guns, preferably a pair of 12-gauge double-barreled sidelock ejectors from London's Purdey James & Sons or Holland & Holland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Britain's Guns of August | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...right, I've got my notes on the meeting right here," replied Carter, pulling a Bazooka buble gum wrapper from his pocket. "Ben was wearing green golf pants and a yellow shirt open at the neck, and I had on my jogging outfit. Ben told me I shouldn't ask him about the investigation or why he thought it was a good idea for Billy to register as a Libyan agent. So I didn...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: All in the Family | 8/5/1980 | See Source »

Anyone who talks like that in Pocock is bound to attract the attention of Mrs. d'Amboise, a sculptor "who like all women of quality chewed her gum with her front teeth and rarely popped it within earshot of people with known academic degrees or season subscription boxes to the Opera." At 16, Peachum becomes Mrs. d'Amboise's model and a suitable future suitor for her ten-year-old daughter Columbine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Love and Lechery Overlap | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

...legal framework for this issue began to take its modern form in 1953. New York Giants Catcher Wes Westrum had signed contracts giving two rival bubble-gum firms exclusive rights to put him on their baseball cards. The companies took their fight to court, where a federal judge recognized the "right of publicity," entitling celebrities to a cut of the profits rung up by merchandise bearing their likenesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Who Can Inherit Fame? | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

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