Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after tea. At 9:20 p.m., Barlow said, he found she had vomited in bed, so he changed the linen. She took off her sweat-soaked pajamas and went to take a bath. He dozed. At 11:20 he awoke, found her in the tub, drowned. He pulled the plug and, said he, tried artificial respiration to no avail...
...technician from Yale, taking a summer course in music, lived up to his fame for facile improvisation. Every time that something went wrong, the cry of "Mc Goo, fix it" went up. And he did. He manufactured a stage plug out of a piece of wood and scraps of copper wire, and he managed to rewire half the Harvard Union in an afternoon...
Rothmans was so bluntly frank because it is trying to plug its own filter brand (called Rothmans) at the expense of the industry. The company is struggling to win a major market in Canada, and Supersalesman O'Neil-Dunne, speaking in Toronto, claimed that Rothmans' king-size filter brand yielded 14.4% to 38.7% less tars than the four other bestselling Canadian filters. Furthermore, "an increasing section of scientific opinion believes that if the tar intake from a single cigarette were reduced to 18 milligrams,† there would be a significant reduction in the risk of lung cancer...
...Rock People." A few admen were impressed, and Stan began to collect accounts. Today his clients range from Pictsweet Frozen Foods to the Bank of America. The Pictsweet plug catches the writer of a commercial in mid-job, humming, "Pictsweet, something, something, something, something, something-and quality, too." The Bank of America plug brings two spacemen to life with the line, "We'd like to see something in earth money." During the one month that the ad ran on radio, the bank reported that time-plan loans were up 33%. One Salt Lake City station was so impressed with...
Other sponsors are signing on for only 26 or 13 weeks instead of the standard 39, and showing a heavy preference for TV's bargain specials: the filmed western (which can be used for reruns) and quiz shows (which get prizes in exchange for a plug...