Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hamilton Vaughan Ball '13 tells how Wetherbee suddenly appeared at the door, "walked to the door, of the bedroom and standing on my roommate's trunk ran his hand along the top of the door. He then asked me to do the same whereupon I discovered a round wooden plug set in the top. We removed the door found a corkscrew and with Mr. Wetherbee acting as Master of Ceremonies opened the hole." After explaining the documents to Bail and his roommate, Wetherbee then went off to find Amory and all four of them again signed the scroll...
European Defense Community. Long after most European statesmen had written off the EDC plan for an international European army, Dulles continued to plug for it. His stubbornness began to bear fruit last month when West Germany showed its growing strength and political stability by re-electing Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, a strong EDC partisan. France, which had blocked EDC, suddenly reawakened to the danger that the U.S. might insist on independent German rearmament if EDC did not materialize. Result: the French government seemed to be moving toward acceptance of EDC, and prospects for a West German contribution to the defense...
Mostly Soap Operas. Most term contracts at the big cinema studios still forbid TV appearances, except for special walk-ons to plug a new picture (as Marilyn Monroe plugged The Robe on Benny's program), and most top-ranking freelance stars are too wary or too busy for television. Explains Cinema Tough...
...clientele." To keep his clientele, Kreis stays open 24 hours a day (Schwab's closes at midnight), delivers sandwiches and prescriptions in a black truck with gold leaf lettering, carries such carriage-trade items as $500 hairbrushes and $250 shaving brushes. Like the best nightclubs, it has plug-in telephones (at the soda fountain) and a pressagent...
ADVERTISERS, notably the book clubs, will find it easier to plug their products in the future, under a new ruling of the Federal Trade Commission. The commission reversed its 1948 position that merchandise might not be offered as "free" if customers had to buy something to get it. Under the new rules, a "free" offer may be made if (1) the strings are clearly defined, and (2) the regular price is not increased or quantity or quality reduced...