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Word: glugging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Navy, ever more sophisticated, has developed something called the DSRV, capable of glug-glugging down to distressed subs, latching onto their escape hatches and lifting sailors to the surface. This time, though, the U.S.S. Neptune is lying in a deep ocean trench, subject to slides of rock and silt from farther up this underwater canyon. These slides 1) cover up the escape hatch and 2) keep shoving Neptune over to an angle where the DSRV can't latch onto that hatch. The screen writers must resort to their imaginations, concocting an experimental two-man sub that can clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Escape Hatch | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...devils down at the KGB sitting listening to all the parties tonight and not a drop to drink," said one Western diplomat, raising another glass. A few minutes later the phone rang and the host answered. He heard no voice-only the unmistakable pop of a cork and the glug-glug pouring of champagne. Then the callers, anonymous as ever, hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL NOTES: Pop Goes the KGB | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

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