Word: gums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lest anyone think that a teacher can be ''bribed" by the gifts she receives from her pupils at Christmas, a sixth-grade teacher in New Castle, Ind. reported the following Yuletide take to the Kansas City Times: six pieces of double-bubble chewing gum, one bottle of Night in Bagdad perfume, three pictures of Actor Lash Larue, two rolls of mints, a loaded cigar, a Dewey-for-President badge. ¶ Gift of the week: the 30-room Southampton, N.Y. mansion of Manhattan Stockbroker Charles E. Merrill to his alma mater Amherst College. Amherst's plan...
...front, the cold-weather men live in foxholes to find out how frostbite creeps up on troops, and whether the Army's new insulated, gum-rubber shoepacks are working effectively. Special weather stations have been set up to chart temperature, humidity and wind velocity every hour, day & night. The information is checked against the flow of field casualties to determine the exact conditions under which frostbite occurs. Everywhere, team members ask a steady stream of questions: Did your feet perspire? Were you asleep? How were you dressed...
...attempt was made to hide the child's death. The body was beautifully embalmed after the expensive fashion of the upper classes. Wrapped in the best flaxen cloth and smeared with gum, its name inscribed on the breast bandages, it was given a noble burial near the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Some 1,700 years later, the murderer safe from any temporal justice, the body turned up as a well-preserved mummy in British Columbia's Vancouver City Museum...
...pull Santa's beard; and none of them ask why they didn't get what they asked for last year, because, as you remember, Santa never promised anything. The most disruptive thing that happened to the Santa Claus department all week was the arrival of a man from Beechnut Gum. He had several bins of the stuff, and suggested that we pass it out free, which I was glad to do. Spang, however, looked at the gum somewhat goggle-eyed and announced, "Well, I'm certainly not going to give it to every Tom, Dick, and Harry!" Several children left...
...twister hit grandpa's barn. His appearance alone was enough to turn heads: he was a slim, tough-looking youth who sported a mustache, long sideburns and a goatee, wore blue jeans, a maroon jacket and a snap brim hat, and simultaneously smoked a cigar and chewed bubble gum...