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Word: plonking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadcasting Commission has trumpeted the cultural values of good music as a measure of a town's civic taste. In towns whose chief diversion formerly was hunting kangaroos and rabbits, overflow crowds climb nearby trees to listen through the open windows. Occasionally, aborigines show up and solemnly swig plonk (Australian slang for wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beethoven in the Bush | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...Honk, Plonk. In Casteldaccia, Sicily, police had to rescue Bus Driver Paolo Alliotta, 33, from a mob of townsmen, who stoned him because he blew his horn to clear traffic, awoke them from their sidewalk naps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 29, 1955 | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

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