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Word: glopping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be back in a couple of weeks-he's just taking a vacation with Judge Thatcher and Becky-but the kind of minds who find it natural and necessary to turn Tom Sawyer into a musical cannot be expected to resist topping their concoction with a thick glop of Reddi-wip sentiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Whitewash | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...Senators Hubert Humphrey and Hugh Scott were recently dispatched to Li'l Abner's Dogpatch to learn why it is the one pollution-free spot in the U.S. Reason: the Gobbleglops, which look like pigs with bunny tails, gobble up, in the words of Mammy Yokum, "all glop, irregardless . . . They's natcheral-born incinerators. Thass why glop goes in 'em an' none comes out!!" Pogo has been invaded in recent months by an odd beast, half Great Dane and half hyena, that looks and alliterates like Spiro T. Agnew, by a bulldog that might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE COMICS ON THE COUCH | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

Plastic furniture has been accepted for years in Western Europe. Scandinavians and Italians were among the pioneers in molding a wide variety of chemical glop into dazzlingly new and comfortable forms. The European furniture failed to sell well in the U.S., however, largely because its prices were too high for the average American buyer. When domestic plastic furniture began coming onto the American market about five years ago, the pieces were mostly one-of-a-kind and also expensive. Now, mass production is solving the cost problem. It has resulted in plastic Parsons tables that sell for only one-third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Furniture of Chemistry | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

Most ice cream connoisseurs ponder long and hard over what flavor to choose. For those who also stop to consider the caloric implications of their decision, Baskin-Robbins offers the following guide to the dietetic damage potential of twelve glop favorites. The calorie counts are for a single scoop, with a sugar cone; multiple dips, naturally, come to munch, munch more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Calorie Count | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

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