Word: gumming
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...hosts' home, a variety of alcoholic beverages served at the party was unusual. Most of the time we drank nothing stronger than Inca Kola. A piss-yellow soft drink with the taste of bubble gum, Inca Kola manages to more than hold its own against the foreign invader, Coke. In Peru soft drinks are chugged rapidly at a gulp. For this style of drinking Coca Cola has too much gas, something which the company's South American executives either don't know or are unwilling to change...
...supplier of feathery balls, stitched a spherical bag out of cowhide which was then stuffed with boiled feathers. Enough feathers to fill a top hat were packed into each ball. The unreliable and easily rotted feathery endured until around 1848 when the discovery of gutta percha, an elastic gum found in the forests of Malaysia, sent shock waves through the golf industry...
...Nowadays, wind tunnels are used to gauge flight trajectory and a miniature guillotine tests the toughness of the cover. The latest breakthrough in the industry is the truncated dimple, and a controversy rages over the relative merits of balata or surlyn covered balls. Balata is a kind of tree gum, and surlyn is a synthetic material pioneered by Dupont...
...sidekick, Robert, are only sporadically looking to connect. For the most part, they have engineered a working arrangement with hopelessness. They ride from one small, shabby West German town to another, while Bruno repairs equipment in dilapidated movie theaters. The musty dream palaces have turned into mausoleums with chewing gum on the seats...
...First you walk into your chopper door. Then you fall down the ramp of Air Force One. Before you even take office you arrange for the last Democratic President to suggest your inability to chew gum and do much of anything else. Then, when your opponent is all set up, you show up for a campaign debate, leaving your college football helmet at home, and play 90 minutes of What's My Line? without falling on your fanny. Viewers are impressed. You aren't an utter boob after...