Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plug for his country's new dollar-earning export, Australia's Governor-General William J. McKell packed a crate of 500 fresh orchids, air expressed them to the White House as a gift for Bess Truman...
...Manhattan to plug a new movie (Trio) adapted from three of his short stories, Somerset Maugham told reporters that his writing career was almost, but not quite, over: "If I think of an occasional little piece I will write it. When you have written for a great many years, it's a habit you get into and rather hard to break, and if I don't sit at my writing table each morning, I don't know exactly what to do with myself...
...Vitamins. Mrs. Roosevelt kept on talking about world problems all day. At Bixby Park in Long Beach, she devoted only one minute to the California campaign. At one point she even seemed to be making a lefthanded plug for Republican Warren. She had always been impressed by his program. Now, she suggested mildly, "The Democratic Party and someone who has had a background in it might do a better job" of putting the program through. But by the time she had gone to a Democratic reception at the Hollywood Brown Derby, had been televised and had spoken -amid tremendous applause...
...initiative, still fought with unabated fury -and apparently, with ample reserves-to destroy the U.S. beachhead. They had assembled massive forces aimed at Taegu (see map). Tough, ubiquitous General Walton Walker was still forced to shuttle his units from one crisis to another, like a Dutch boy trying to plug four holes in the dike with two thumbs...
...Agriculture Charles Brannan went before 2,322 farmers in Minnesota to tout his controversial Brannan plan. The farmers, who work part-time for the Agriculture Department as local committeemen, were paid $8 a day plus 5? a mile traveling allowances plus incidental expenses to hear the big chief plug his own propaganda. Last week U.S. Comptroller General Lindsay Warren reported to Congress that Brannan's two-day rally had cost...