Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High tribute was paid to Johnny, "the son of immigrant parents," for his hustle, team-play, and high sportsmanship. After a speech by Father Dolan, chairman of the Pesky Night Committee, and a plug for the C. Y. O., the announcer pointed out that some countries can idolize only military figures. "In America, thank God, we can idolize our sports heroes as well." Swede Nelson and Dom DiMaggio spoke briefly, presenting Johnny with a scroll, and a shiny two-toned Cadillac emerged from under the left field stand...
...Leak. As the Government expanded, it developed a slick technique of professional pressagentry. Sometimes the pressagents do a helpful and necessary job of briefing reporters on complicated subjects. But too often they plug only the Administration's side of a crucial Government issue, hope the reporter hasn't the sense or gumption to dig up the other side. The Federal Government now employs about 5,000 full-and part-time pressagents, spends an estimated $65 million a year on salaries and printing. The payroll is still growing fast; in a year the number of pressagents in the Defense...
...from history wherein overbearing conquerors came to naught. After the Japanese moved out, Kan poked fun at the Nationalists, who sternly reprimanded him. Then the Communists took over. At first the Reds hailed Kan as an authentic "artist of the people." He reciprocated by giving the new regime a plug or two in his tales. But when his listeners showed signs of boredom, Kan promptly reverted to his old style...
...German Communist press, which knows a plug when it sees one, joyously spread Mann's panegyric to Becher across its front pages. In Pacific Palisades, Calif., where Mann, now a U.S. citizen, is completing a new novel, his wife explained that her husband does not share Becher's political views but "is convinced of Mr. Becher's idealism." Said Daughter Erika: "Father feels badly that it is not possible to write a letter to a man any more without stirring up this kind of thing...
...Even then he had a name among U.S. merchandisers as sales manager of Chicago's Marshall Field and as the man who had first persuaded dairies to put milk in paper containers. As marketing chief of American Can, he was the first to plug beer in cans. As sales manager of Pepsi-Cola, he sparked soft-drink sales with take-home cartons...