Word: plum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand a Michael. Dropping sterling syllables into the air from his glass-paneled aerie 60 ft. above Westminster Abbey's nave, Dimbleby lived up not only to his reputation as England's best commentator, but to his nicknames-"Bishop Dimbleby," "Dick Dimbleboom," and "The Royal Plum Pudding...
Only a few weeks ago, Brower and BBDO hooked Dodge's $21 million car and truck account, biggest new account in the agency's history. Last week Brower scored again; Pepsi-Cola gave BBDO its $9,000,000 account, a plum that eventually could mean $25 million in billings if Pepsi's distributors follow the company's lead. Instead of showing what he was going to do for Pepsi, Brower put 60 members of his staff to work turning out a 65-page book that told about the people who would be on the account, stressed...
...surprising extent they succeeded. Because there was no local culture, not even the convenience of slaves, these blue-eyed Scots, Irish and English established a middle-class British society, mercantile, predominantly Protestant. The speech of Australia became a nasal offshoot of cockney, and at Christmastime Australians dutifully ate plum pudding in 100° heat. For England's "county" aristocracy, Australia substituted its own "squattocracy"-men who had carved out for themselves sheep or cattle stations the size of Maryland and sent their sons to Cambridge or Oxford. To its critics, it seemed a perfectly preserved specimen of 19th century...