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Word: yanked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Word to Tiny Minds | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Ingomarred | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

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