Word: plunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spotlight on Europe. As the centuries whisk by, Sédillot takes only 18 pages to wrench Man out of the amoeba and plunk him down on the banks of the Nile. For the next 20 pages, history flashes from the Indus to the Mediterranean like a restless spotlight, fixing for a moment on King Hammurabi of Babylonia, the empire of Assyria, the fabulous and frivolous Palace of Knossos, and the Phoenician masters...
...America is. Except in the sense that it is for free trade everywhere it is not specifically trying to spread the American way of life. Its chief and boundlessly healthy interest is in the liras and the piasters, the tickeys and the centavos which it can induce people to plunk down on store counters or drop into the slots of amiable selling robots. In this laudable endeavor, Coca-Cola has been uncommonly successful. It is currently selling about 50 million Cokes a day all over the world-enough to float a light cruiser. Last year, the Coca-Cola Co. took...