Word: plug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have to use the plug for the washing machine...
Gifts of tobacco were ruled acceptable if the girl is not likely to lose her sense of discrimination in the heady atmosphere of a tobacconists. "I mean, I don't want cut plug because it happens to come wrapped in fancy ribbon," said a voter earnestly, champing on the stem...
...battle between two rangy, evenly matched teams. High scorer Tom Mullaney, cruising at 6 ft, 5 in., bombed the Jumbos in to 28 points and personally whittled the Crimson's eight point lead at 5 minutes before the end down to 3 points. He and Ed Smith, Harvard spark plug with 27 points, battered away at each others' backboards for nearly half of the tallies in the game...
...what Author Waugh rhapsodically calls the "old masters"-strips that expressed some real, if limited, human situation: Mutt, lean, mean and grubby, abusing Jeff, "symbol of the little man, kicked, downtrodden, and yet eternally coming back for more"; Barney Google in love with his shy, awkward horse, Spark Plug; Maggie scrambling up the social ladder while Jiggs pathetically tries to escape to the simple joys of corned beef & cabbage at Dinty Moore's place...
...week for Gillette. First, the razor blade company launched a $1,000,000 campaign to plug its new bright blue plastic container for 20 blades (98?). Next day, the board of directors declared an extra dividend of 50? a share, raising 1947 dividends to $2.87½ a share, highest in the company's history. The following day, Gillette's 3,457 employees got an extra week's pay as a bonus for record production...