Word: touts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bulbous parts of the billboards, which are attached to a regular outdoor advertisement, are made out of vinyl-coated nylon, and a small electric fan directed inside the air bag keeps them inflated. The inflatables tout everything from hot dogs to radio stations. One in Toronto that shows a 12-ft.-long airplane nose sticking out of an advertisement for Pacific Western Airlines cost $4,000, and a billboard in The Bronx that has a 23-ft-long hand pulling a cigarette out of a 12-ft.-high pack of Kent Golden Lights...
...build a Philippine defense force. He was 45 and a major, with dubious prospects for advancement; like Grant before Fort Sumter, he was waiting for events. The last entry is dated March 14, 1967, two years before his death. Again like Grant, he had been elevated to the presidency - tout served with far greater success. In 1962 Historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr. asked 75 prominent "students of American history" to rate the Presidents up to 1961. Eisenhower, the 34th and last in line, came in 22nd, just before Andrew Johnson. (Grant and Harding were at the bottom.) Nine teen years...
...tout cas, I hope that you will have a truly ravishing visit to this extraordinary land, and please blow a kiss to my very favorite French lady (next to you, Nicole)-the Statue of Liberty...
Inevitably, there were a few incidents of tasteless exploitation. A San Francisco executive of a supermarket chain suggested to store managers that they tie yellow bows around household plants, boost the price by $1.50 each, and tout them as mementos of the national celebration. At times too, the national euphoria passed the bounds of reason. Hand-lettered sign after sign along the parade routes proclaimed U.S. 52, IRAN 0, as if the release of the hostages represented an overwhelming American victory rather than what it was: the negotiated end to a prolonged national nightmare...
...area, where there are more than 125 of the clubs, prospective two-steppers can dial a special number (652-2792) to find out where the action is. Some newcomers are lured to Detroit's Urban Cowboy, the most successful C&W spread in Michigan, by truck drivers who tout its charms on their CBs. The Boston area, with a full-time AM country-music station, has about 30 clubs offering C&W entertainment. Mr. McNasty's, a former gay leather bar in Kenmore Square that is now the city's only seven-night-a-week live country...