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Word: pluggers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Cohn's funeral, other obituaries were added: "He was a song plugger and a louse," said Comedian Lou Holtz. "He never learned how to live," said Samuel Goldwyn. "He was," said Hedda Hopper, "a sadistic son of a bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yes, Sire | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...Plugger...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: What Makes Hardin Run This Season? The Harrier Flash Is 'Just Faster' | 10/26/1966 | See Source »

Hardin has his own style of running -- he's a plugger. "I'm not fast. I don't have speed, but I can take a fast pace. I doesn't hurt me as much at the end." He doesn't have much of a kick. But Doug will kill you with his perseverence. He stuck so close to McKusick in the Cornell meet that even the Big Red sensation couldn't stand the pace and cramped...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: What Makes Hardin Run This Season? The Harrier Flash Is 'Just Faster' | 10/26/1966 | See Source »

...neat-but-ivyless Cal State at Los Angeles, a state-financed, tuition-free college with an enrollment of 20,000 students, the bulk of whom are Los Angeles commuters (the San Bernardino Freeway slashes along the edge of the campus). Described by both his parents as "a real plugger," Gary Wilson has earned a rock-solid B average and the nickname "Old Reliable Wilson" for his industrious work as president and treasurer of Theta Chi fraternity and member of the Cal State interfraternity council, the college student disciplinary board and the Blue Key honorary society. Last week he was elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: Greeting | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

...Walston drives her away and brings home a substitute, Kim Novak, who heads the navel armada at a local juke joint known as the Belly Button. Through a series of vinsavory miscalculations, punctuated by a parrot that squawks "Bang! Bang!" all too frequently, Martin gets the wife, the song plugger gets Kim, and Kim gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hipster's Harlot | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

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