Word: gumming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Reagan, in the 1942 movie Desperate Journey.) Then they turn back to their work, the Haneys calling out sample questions they have researched in advance, and Abbott, perched at the keyboard of a small computer, tinkering with the wording. ("I'm the only one who can chew gum and spell at the same time," he explains.) The choice of questions to be included depends entirely on their creators' reaction to them. "We trust each other's opinions," Chris says. "If everyone laughs, it's a winner. If half the room laughs and the other half...
...real pretty, the colors and creatures and all, but these days, you know, every movie is pretty pretty. I guess the only thing that kept me glued to my seat was the gum somebody'd stuck on the upholstery. Now get this: at the end, our little wimp learns how important it is to read books and to believe in the world of the imagination and good stuff like that...
...with-another-joke style fits the desperate nature of the combat. The young mother who reads it may have a degree in psychology from Michigan State, but as she cleans up after the puppy while trying to separate two children who are fighting over a linty piece of bubble gum, she may not be in the mood for compound-complex sentences. She may smile over a column by Art Buchwald, the master of the discovered absurdity, or one of Russell Baker's elegantly sane demonstrations that the world is crazy. But if she enlists in an army...
...State, George Shultz. "Cap has a point about throw weight," Shultz told his startled and discouraged staff after a meeting with Weinberger. It was almost exactly what Reagan had said more than a year earlier. Burt worked to convince the Secretary of State that throw weight would "just gum...
...child of seven living in the south of England in 1944. Your article brought back memories of truckloads of smiling G.I.s who gave us precious bars of chocolate as well as our first taste of chewing gum. America's sacrifice will be remembered and its G.I.s never forgotten...