Word: outletting
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...said that she had had her stereo on and plugged into the same outlet as her refrigerator, but that the outlet was across the room from where the fire broke...
...eight fedayeen on the suicidal mission were dropped by a fishing smack, which was later captured by Israeli patrol ships outside Israel's territorial waters. The raiders grounded their boat near a sewage outlet on the edge of Tel Aviv. Unnoticed, they stepped ashore, armed with rapid-fire Kalashnikovs and high-explosive charges...
...revolution in consumption patterns that America needs in order to survive. For Sam's country to survive, people must accept sardinehood. And Sam accepts. He'll come back day after next to enter a petition for more time to write his departmental reports. He's found an outlet for his frustrations--"my petition for more time." Sure...
Communist nations closely guard their export figures, but Pentagon experts believe that China supplies some weapons (such as MIG-21 fighter-bombers, with instrument panels and operating manuals in Chinese) to North Viet Nam, North Korea, Pakistan and a few revolutionary movements in Africa. Poland is a major outlet for the Warsaw Pact's surplus tanks. Czechoslovakia, whose famed Bren gun as well as the Skoda Works' howitzers made the country second only to Britain as a weapons merchant in the 1930s, has dropped from the big leagues. It sells some jet trainers to other Communist states and Syria...
...founder of CBS and for decades the American classical music impresario; in Rye, N. Y. After becoming the manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1915, Judson also took on the New York Philharmonic in 1921. In 1926 he bought an interest in a moribund radio station to provide an outlet for his musician clients, nursed it through near bankruptcy, and built it into the Columbia Broadcasting System. "King Arthur's" power in the music world receded gradually after 1936, but he remained active as an impresario well into...