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Word: plums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometime in the dark of that night a huge meal was partially consumed. Steak was there and eaten, and yogurt with kumquats and plum wine from Japan was drunk and coconuts were cracked with hammers and given to dogs. But the piece of resistance of the engagement feast was a vast baked pumpkin, so large it had barely squeezed in and out of Merilee's oven, and filled with breadcrumbs and a surprise, with comfrey and tomatoes, with currants and dill and with a delicious white powder from the cabinet which not even Merilee could identify; and when the love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...prize plum for any as? ?? since his discovery is auto? ?? named after...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: ?? Blotted Out-From the Sky | 3/6/1970 | See Source »

...considers "major." When Peace Corps officials, on their own, dropped Y. & R. for Keye, Donna & Pearlstein, council members observed that the new agency was too small for an account that had been given $25 million worth of media placements. The council thereupon shrank Keye, Donna & Pearlstein's new plum by reducing Peace Corps advertising from "major" to "bulletin" status, on grounds that the council had higher-priority campaigns to handle. This action meant that the account was no longer eligible for space or time from the council's pool and that the agency would have to scratch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Little Agency That Could | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...expatriate stance has vanished. "America is where I belong," she says, after a six-year sojourn in France. "This is where it has to happen." The girl who turned down the leading role in Bonnie and Clyde and Rosemary's Baby is not about to let a plum go by her again. "I'll take on anything," she states, "even a musical." Peter, whose volatility could make Librium jittery, has turned out to have, his father says, "one of the great marriages of all time." When he talks today, he sounds as outrageous as ever, but miraculously, studio heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Flying Fondas and How They Grew | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

...contest is over money-the lucrative plum awarded by the University's summer school to the publisher of the Summer News. Last year, the CRIMSON received a $6000 University subsidy for putting out 15 issues twice a week during summer school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Independent vies with Crimson on summer subsidy | 2/11/1970 | See Source »

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