Possible Clues:

• Masticating
• Biting and grinding food
• Pondering, with "on"
• Pondering, with 'on'
• Revolutionary faction like some tobacco
• Grinding a revolutionary plane part
• Characteristic of one ruminating companion joined by family in epic TV series?
• -- gum, preparation made from chicle
• After church J.R. perhaps is meditating
• Mastication