Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall faced the television cameras, adjusted his glasses, and began reading a brief announcement. He stumbled over a familiar name, saying "Dwayt" instead of Dwight. Fortunately, someone kicked out the electric plug leading to the camera cable, and Hall had to start all over again. This time he got it right: the Republican Party has "the greatest leader of our times-Dwight D. Eisenhower." Presumably to renominate that leader, the G.O.P. will meet for four days, beginning Aug. 20, 1956, in San Francisco's 16,954-seat Cow Palace...
...Helen Keller, 74, whose senses have steadily quickened ever since she was struck blind, deaf and dumb in childhood, was guest of honor at a farewell banquet in Manhattan, where she received through her fingers the words of a greeting from Eleanor Roosevelt. In the Orient, Dr. Keller will plug for expanded facilities for the physically handicapped...
Watkins proceeded to put in a plug for something near to his heart: the billion-dollar power and reclamation project proposed for the Upper Colorado River Basin. There was, said Watkins, nothing socialistic about the idea; private utilities in the West were ready and eager to buy the power. Moreover, backing by the President would help refute some of the talk about the Administration's "giveaway" policy on natural resources. "That's a good idea," said Ike, turning to an assistant and giving the necessary order...
...candy stand operated on an honor system to discontinue the sale of all items like cigarette with a high wholesale cost. A dime attached to a wire was also discovered in a coke machine. Spoilage destroyed the contents of an ice-cream vender when someone pulled out the plug...
Three-Ring Circus (Paramount) has Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis selling frozen custard at the circus. Customers crowd around. All at once the bung blows out of the custard vat. Splat! Barrages of goo go glugging in all directions. Jerry tries to plug the hole with his fist. Fffffttt! His feet go silly on the slimy stuff, and down he slathers. "Helpfllgrrulp!" As he opens his mouth to holler, a stream of sweet bilge hoses down his esophagus. In a matter of seconds everybody in sight is wallowing gloriously in orange muck, and the whole scene looks like nothing...