Word: plugging
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...stomach-turning variety got a good going-over last week from a listener with a sensitive stomach and a big audience. In Reader's Digest, Robert Littell protested against broadcast ads which made "some stranger's gizzards come bounding right into the room." He called such commercials "plug-uglies" and announced the formation of the outraged order of Plug Shrinkers...
...Aspiring Plug Shrinkers were asked to write to 522 Fifth Avenue, New York City, name the sponsor of their pet retch, and check off what was wrong with his commercial: i.e. was it in bad taste, hokum, tiresome, repulsive, anatomical, silly, syrupy, or what...
...enough in many cases, and will be repayable loans and not full scholarships. The loans are specifically provided for seven fields of study; engineering, physics, chemistry, medicine, veterinary, dentistry, and pharmacy. Only students who can complete their education in the next two years will receive them. While it may plug the biggest gaps, the bill does not provide for all the specialists now needed. And it will have to be put through the whole amending process as new needs develop. When General Hershey's office is sending out practically blanket deferments for pre-theological students, who have already been declared...
...Ritchie, who lost the first round of the battle, was out, and command of the battered Eighth Army had been taken over by no less a person than the British Commander in Chief of the Middle East, General Sir Claude John Eyre ("The Auk") Auchinleck. The Auk decided to plug Rommel at the neck of a funnel-the 35-mile gap between El Alamein on the coast and the northern tongue of the steep-sided, marsh-bedded Qattara Depression.* El Alamein is 70 miles from Alexandria...
...wider popular support than the Government a year ago. The anti-British ex-Prime Minister Aly Maher Pasha has been jailed. Within recent weeks 200 other possible quislings have been arrested, a padlock put on the Cairo Royal Automobile Club, which since the war has been a spark plug of pro-Axis intrigue...