Word: yanked
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When he is in the mood for Yank-baiting, no one does it with more enthusiasm than Yank-admiring Lord Beaverbrook, 81, Canadian-born proprietor of the London Daily Express (circ. 4,250,000) and three other British papers. Beaverbrook's intermittent brand of anti-Americanism rests on the suspicion that the U.S. is out to reduce Britain to satellite status, has manifested itself in everything from his opposition to a 1946 U.S. loan to Britain ("We have sold the Empire for a trifling sum") to wild editorial outcries at the Ford Motor Co.'s recent...
Thus, many an advertiser took it on the chin in last week's fight. Schick razors, which had hired Ingo for a $2,000,000 campaign introducing their new "golden Swedish steel" razor blades, had to yank him from a whole series of ads, and use other athletes who may not be so Swedish as Schick's golden blades, but are still out front...