Word: wadding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...premiere ended, Allen sat with his cheeks puffed out like a man who had just missed his train, shuffled his wad of gum to the side of his mouth, and pleaded: "If you don't like the show, for heaven's sake keep quiet until we get the thing fixed...
Stuffy still recalls how Eddie Collins of the Red Sox kept a wad of gum on the button of his cap until he had two strikes against him. Rip Sowell of the Pirates would never go to shortstop position without touching third, and Tris Speaker, centerfielder for the Bosox, would construct a neatly drawn line in front of the plate each time he came up to bat. Stuffy has a lot of respect for a good superstition...
...visitors began coming to see him. After that, White took to strolling the streets, inconspicuous in a wrinkled grey suit. From time to time, beside a convent wall or in a park, he met seedy individuals and received small packages in return for bills he peeled from a fat wad of U.S. $100s. At length, the seedy ones led him to houses where he paid big money ($5,000, all told) for big packages. Then, having learned the names and residences of Ecuador's busiest dope dealers, George White led the Quito cops in 48 hours of raids...
...royally rich, had fallen on bad times. Gone were the days when Alexandra, Czarina of all the Russias, could bring the entire corps of the Imperial Ballet to dance while she gambled, when a Casino patron could toss a hand grenade into the roulette wheel after losing his wad and scarcely raise a commotion. Currency restrictions had cut the once-rich British trade to a trickle; the recently installed crap tables (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949), having failed to attract Americans in any quantities, were merely confusing the other customers, who stood around in baffled silence as the croupiers intoned such...
...even use him. But back of Lechin are Communist labor leaders, who also plan to use him. Such Marxists are spreading the word among Bolivia's Indians that land reform is next, and a restlessness has already been noted on the altiplano. If Paz shoots the nationalist wad and fails, the door to Marxist revolution may be blown wide open. And if the Reds sneak in, Bolivia will indeed be back on the map of the world's trouble spots...