Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bell's stock list for the Nascopie this year, radioed out of the north two months ago, occupies four closely typed long sheets. Items: tinted sun goggles, dolls, Florida water, girls' ski slacks, sewing machines, jew's-harps, thousands of pounds of plug tobacco, spruce poles for spear handles, blubber lamps...
...noted that commercials have been getting longer, more frequent, and more offensive. Station KMAC, San Antonio, hit an alltime high in January 1945. In one 133-hour period of broadcasting, it carried 2,215 plug-uglies, an average of 16.7 an hour...
...they made a great show of turning coats publicly. General MacArthur's headquarters had summoned the editors last December, the day before the Communists announced their platform, and warned them that they must be fair to new parties. Some editors said they took the warning as a plug for the Communists. And behind their unfamiliar attitude was a feeling that, as an Asahi editor put it, "the new thing in Japan is the left...
...plug the gaps in this national network, TIME'S Domestic News Bureau has part-time-but no less important-correspondents strategically located in 79 cities across the U.S. Their job is not only to watch for news stories of more than local interest, but to keep us constantly filled in on what people in their sections are doing, saying, thinking. And you may be sure that these correspondents never fail to jack us up when we get off the beam; they are, in fact, our quickest, toughest critics...
...Instrument. Perón also bludgeoned his way into control of a mouthpiece for his dreams and promises: Buenos Aires' powerful afternoon newspaper Critica (circulation 250,000). The strategy had been violence. Perón's plug-uglies had made sporadic raids on democratic Critica, had been met with fierce resistance from determined employes. One sortie was spearheaded by 5,000 street-fighters and backed by four armored cars and 100 police...