Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arabian Nights, dabblers in atomic science, and cheerleaders for a rival junior high football team (one of the best of the picture's ten songs is a close-harmony, walls-of-poison-ivy number, softly sung by a group of "us stinkers"-Dr. T.'s plug-ugly hirelings...
...housing problems. All of them had something to add to Neville's observations. London Correspondent Gene Farmer reported an unusual kind of trouble with electrical appliances. There are about 165 different kinds of wall sockets in use in the London area, he said. Before they bought a new plug for their sewing machine, Mrs. Farmer had to decide which room to put it in. Now, if that room is cold, he said, "she either freezes or doesn't sew, because the plug won't fit into any other socket...
Also from Harvard are the 15 men on the Jaguars, which features varsity player Doug Manchester and Wink Childs, spark-plug of this year's freshman squad. Dunster House also sports a team, starring high-scoring freshman Bill Cleary and Intramural standout Henry Feldman at goal...
...typical was a Chicago restaurateur who put a black wreath in his window, with a sign below reading: "Joe's gone. Vodka on the house." The New York Daily News, as usual, called a spade a meat-ax: "Jailbird son of a drunken cobbler . . . in essence, a backwoods plug-ugly and killer." Less crudely, but no less clear in its condemnation, the New York Times said: "Our children's children will still be paying the price for the evil which he brought into the world...
Coin-Operated Mattress. In Denver, the Gyramatic Co. began sale of a plug-in gyrating mattress for use in hotels. By depositing 25? in a coin slot, the weary traveler gets 30 minutes of soothing movement, which is supposed to quiet nerves, massage away aches & pains and bring sleep. Price...