Word: plopped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lancashire v. Lyon. What had happened to Western Union? Last year, Winston Churchill had grandly advocated the "grand design." All that Europe heard from Britain on the subject now was what one U.S. newsman called "the dull plop-plop" of Ernie Bevin's speeches, urging step-by-step progress. A British M.P. last week explained: "The French plan is an effort to pass on to some kind of European government the problems which the French government has so much trouble solving. Some call it 'escapism.' I prefer to call it the search for a short...
...DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE WHO USED AND THOSE WHO DID NOT SWIM IN POOL. WELL MANAGED SWIMMING POOLS OFFER NO EXCESSIVE HAZARD EXCEPT IN FACE OF EPIDEMIC OR TO THOSE EXCEPTIONALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO EAR OR SINUS INFECTION. MODERN MOTHERS MAY SING OLD TUNE BUT SHOULD CHANGE OLD WORDS TO ". . . AND PLOP RIGHT IN THE WATER...
Witches' Broth. Private Borchers' letter landed plop in the midst of the West's most violent racial hysteria since "Yellow Peril" pioneer days. The 112,000 U.S. Japanese evacuated from the West Coast had become the object of hatred more intense than the anti-German-American feeling of World War I. The U.S. mortally hates and fears the Jap; but the furiously boiling stew had many other ingredients. Professional patriots, demagogues and sensational newspapers, led by the Hearst press, were vigorously stirring the witches' broth...
Mary Martin of Broadway (One Touch of Venus) told New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson that when she was "disgusted" her favorite oath was, "Oh, plop...
Pierre Laval's actual plop into power took Mr. Hull unawares, as it did everyone else in the State Department. But the air was cleared. Now the Vichy sore spots-Dakar, Madagascar, Martinique, North Africa-were almost beyond the reach of diplomatic medication, would if necessary have to be dealt with by the sharp war instruments of the United Nations...