Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...singing seriously only in her junior year in college. As a child back in Clarksburg, W. Va.. she studied violin, majored in political science at Wellesley, during the war got a job as an electrical engineer with the War Production Board ("I didn't know a wall plug from a telephone pole"). Married to a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin (she has since married Editor-Photographer Eugene Cook), she accompanied her husband on archaeological expeditions to Peru and Ecuador. But she kept on taking voice lessons once a week, gave several recitals in Manhattan. Result...
Then he pumps up a tent, an umbrella, and a chair. He walks over to his car, pulls out a plug and psssssssss, the car deflates and shrinks until it is a speck on the sand. He pumps up a surfboard. He pumps up fish. He pumps up a girl. He doesn't like her looks, so he tries again. The new broad is smooth, supple, lissome -but there is something wrong. Two quick final puffs and her bikini brassiere is properly filled...
...road he runs over a nail. Psssssssss, no car. Psssssssss, no highway. The hero lies injured on the non-road. A plug pops out of his thumb and psssssssss, no hero. Nothing left, just the nail...
...near side of 80-tiny, frail Louella Parsons is still adding busily to the legend. When Lolly prattles in her column (syndicated in 70 papers) of Hollywood's marital triangles and parallelepipeds, when she sifts the dust from its closets, even when she gives a plug to a young star she thinks deserving, her chatty, outrageous blend of cat's claws and sentimentality enthralls 20 million readers. In 316 freshly printed pages about herself, Louella does not change the formula: her book is a marvelous and implausible edifice built of glittering scraps in a make-believe land...
...been told . . . Including both words and music, the entire creative process took four minutes, and Paul Anka was soon in New York, auditioning the song for ABC-Paramount. When Diana hit the top of the charts, Anka abruptly gave up his academic career and set off to plug the song from coast to coast...