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Word: plopping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best slogans simply by scavenging around in the mind: Does she or doesn't she? Even your best friends won't tell you. Ask the man who owns one. Say it with flowers. Up, up and away. Fly now, pay later. You're in safe hands. Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. Good to the last drop. The high-priced spread. Tastes good like a cigarette should. Leave the driving to us. I'd rather fight than switch. When it rains, it pours. We try harder. It floats. A diamond is forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Slogan Power! Slogan Power! | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...Plop-plop, fizz-fizz. The Harvard men's tennis team breathed a sigh of relief at Palmer Dixon yesterday after handing Navy a convincing 6-3 defeat in a win that was badly needed to get the Crimson on track in the Eastern League following a mediocre 2-3 spring trip...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Netmen Submarine Navy, 6-3 | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

...Charlie Now (Brian Murray), a middle-aged writer who has come back to his boyhood home near Dublin to bury his father and dispose of the old man's effects. As he begins stuffing faded letters and papers into the kitchen stove, who should shuffle in and plop into his favorite armchair but old Da himself (Barnard Hughes)? Only to be followed by Young Charlie (Richard Seer), Charlie's teen-age self; Mother (Sylvia O'Brien); and Drumm (Lester Rawlins), a dour early employer given to pungent maxims: "Marriage is the maximum loneliness with the minimum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Urn of Memory | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...share offer, they have no intention of getting into a long battle for Miles-and besides Washington trustbusters are examining whether the acquisition would violate antitrust laws. Should they oppose the takeover, the traders who have grabbed up Miles stock may need some of Alka-Seltzer's plop, plop, fizz, fizz relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bayer as Buyer | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...socks to cover his chubby feet. He dropped in the hamper a slightly used Pamper and went out for a walk in the street. O Nicholas Ochs walked blocks and blocks till his socks grew dark and dank. When he came to a stop and sat with a plop at the keys of the Times Data Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Private Life of A. Sock | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

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