Word: plopping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Plop, plop, fizz, fizz--Oh what a relief it is." Unfortunately the relief wasn't there, and neither was half the Harvard track team as the sick and injured Crimson succumbed to Princeton and beat only hapless Yale in Saturday's triangular meet at Princeton...
...supper, though, now I'm partial to the baked stuffed flounder with newburg sauce, but when you finally get a meal you can stomach, the tendency is to overeat and...plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief...
...chiefs and their clients like to call the new approach "realistic," "tough" or "consumer oriented." but to the public the end result seems nothing but the plain old hard sell. It is exemplified by Foote Cone's loud "Shout it Out" commercials for a stain remover and the "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is" jingles created by Wells, Rich Greene's President Charlie Moss for Alka Seltzer-a far cry from the entertaining commercials the same agency turned out for the same product a few years...
...imitating a cock's crow at dawn; and another enters to ape a train whistle by blowing into a set of three wooden pipes. When an 11-year-old Joe Crowell appears to deliver the morning newspapers, we spot another fellow crouching to create a swish-plop on the stage floor with a wire brush and a soft beater, while Joe mimes the act of delivery. And, again, we watch someone make the sound of rattling bottles and clomping hooves although Howie Newsome's horse and milk-carrier are invisible...
...seems difficult for the University to deny RTH's charges. And although Donald Moulton, assistant vice president for government and community affairs, has stated that Harvard does not "want this to be an effort where we swoop down, pluck folks out of some place and plop them down somewhere else," the strategy of quietly pushing the displaced tenants into housing they don't want hardly seems superior...