Word: chew
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Soundest Proof. Between Edna and Georgia, Skelton filled in with alcohol, but now drinks very little and does not smoke, although he almost always has a cigar with him and manages to chew up some 25 to 30 stogies a day. Nor does he gamble-in public-since that might disillusion his followers. When he is in Las Vegas, the hotel management installs a slot machine in his room, last month turned back to him $350 he had lost while playing his enormously successful engagement at The Sands...
...communications aboard the Russian passenger liner Baltika were any good at all, its top passenger, Nikita Khrushchev, and his assorted satellite satraps last week had something new to chew over. As Baltika cruised toward New York harbor, the U.S. State Department handed a coolly worded memorandum to the Soviets' U.N. delegation, advising the Russians that Khrushchev-who had invited him self to the U.S. to appear before the General Assembly-should not make any plans to leave the island of Manhattan, and should find some place to house himself as close to the U.N. headquarters as possible...
...press conference in the marble-walled auditorium of the new Senate Of fice Building, Johnson formally declared himself a candidate for the Democratic nomination. Setting a personal Democratic standard that would still be fluttering up to election time, Johnson said he would not "chew on" President Eisenhower, "just as I have not and I will not spend my time now trying to destroy any in my party or in other parties who might come to this high office. Mistakes have been made?and inexcusable ones. But my interest?and I believe the interest of most of my fellow Americans?...
...promised to maintain the administrative efficiency achieved by General Ne Win's 17 months of army rule, and to emulate the democratic impartiality with which Ne Win presided over the elections. Last time. U Nu acknowledged, "we bit off more than we could chew. We propose not to embark on any new state enterprise, and, in particular, not to nationalize any existing industry now in private hands." Topping off his speech, U Nu repeated his most cherished pledge-to make Buddhism Burma's state religion...
...fleets of bulldozers and an army of sweating workmen chew at midtown Caracas to connect bending ribbons of concrete into a superhighway cloverleaf of supreme complexity. Even before sidewalks are in and the lawn is seeded, self-service elevators begin humming in the flat-fronted apartment buildings that shoot up steadily at the eastern end of the city's valley. On the slopes to the north and south, concrete flows into forms to make walls, patios, retaining walls and swimming pools for low, clean-lined mansions that can cost as much as $3,000,000. Overnight, packing-case houses...