Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students best able to cope with the regular requirements were also allowed to dispense with them and get course reductions, tutorial for credit, and other special dispensations, while those who found courses extremely difficult to adapt to were not allowed to dispense with them, but continued to plug away at the media to which they were unsuited...
...serious duplication of function, however, for Audience appears to be bent upon being a full-fledged review, not merely a vehicle for undergraduate-prose-and-poetry. The difference in approach is illustrated most clearly in the Audience reviews and articles. Guy Davenport in "The Nymph in the Spark Plug" is concerned not merely with the "literary standards" of a literary mode but with its movement in intellectual history. The interest is in observation rather than in literary pomp. Audience's casual observations, however, can carry it astray. Donald Van Eman sets up a paradigm only so as to have...
Ever since the British burned Joan of Arc. martyrdom by foreigners has been pure glory for a Frenchman. Hard-pressed by critics of his Algerian policy and urgently in need of tax funds to plug his cracking war economy. France's Premier Guy Mollet last week chose to risk glorious extinction, at the stake of the U.N. Security Council rather than be buried in the ignominy of domestic issues...
During its twelve years, Queen for a Day has sifted the short and simple annals of some 15,000 women, judged 3,100 unhappy enough to be crowned winners, and given out prizes worth $14 million, almost all donated by manufacturers in exchange for a plug on the air. Average take per queen: $4,000 in gifts, plus four dozen roses, a wardrobe and a one-day tour of Hollywood in a gold Cadillac...
Typical spot commercial (for Mentholatum Rub): "These are arthritic hands. They belong to a retired foreman and 20-year sufferer of arthritic pain and misery. You're looking at them now as they experience a totally new kind of pain relief . . ." An Infra-Rub plug: "Brings comforting warmth from deep within . . . 146 doctors report success based on hundreds of cases." For Omega Oil: "It contains an active ingredient that actually penetrates the skin...