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Word: popcorned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even a ticket to be "validated at the time of a store purchase." Even though the store does not open until 9 a.m., the subway will begin carrying early-morning commuters at 7:30; at the very least, the Leonards hope to grab off some of the passengers for popcorn or a hot dog at the subway-station snack bar. ''We're dang poor merchants.'' drawls Obie Leonard, ''if we can't sell them something while we've got them here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: A Private Subway | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

...film, long and easily identifiable by the Colombian coffee (not popcorn) served in the theater's lounge (not lobby) has acquired a new trademark-The Walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Pedestrian Art | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...ready to put businesses in touch with established sales agents abroad. The Commerce Department supplies inquirers with a long list of potential foreign buyers, counsel on how to sell them and how to snip international red tape, and news that there are likely foreign markets for-among other things -popcorn and plastic handbags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Trade: Missing Markets | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

...largest cities; public art museums, if they existed at all, were usually ill-lit annexes to the local fossil and arrowhead collection. The theater meant Broadway, and the road companies that once trouped every town hall in the land had long since bowed to the onslaughts of celluloid and popcorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: The Do-It-Yourself Acropolis | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

This modest beginning in research, however, has already produced remarkable returns. Papermakers have invented everything from noiseless popcorn bags to paper tents, are currently working with textile manufacturers to develop paper suitable for disposable surgical gowns, bed sheets and men's shirts. Paper coated with plas tic or aluminum is much used in food packaging. Other new products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paper: The Uses of Adversity | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

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