Word: plug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...receiving line of these questionable hurlers will be a pair of questionable catchers. Sheperd has used last year's receiver Joe O'Donnell to plug a large gap at first base, leaving Jeff Hall and Bill Cobb behind the plate. Hall has had freshman and junior varsity experience; Cobb was ineligible last season. Sheperd describes the pair unenthusiastically as "adequate...
Kirkland's Dave Thomas missed the game because of knee injuries suffered late in the season, and offensive spark-plug Bo Keefe left the game after a few minutes with an ankle sprain...
Fahrenheit 451, or How I Stopped Burning Books, is a plug for Library Week. Librarians -- half a smile, coughdrops, their hair restrained in buns -- should champion it. The movie has that peculiar fate because Truffaut strated using Ray Bradbury material and didn't know when to stop...
Screaming and blowing whistles, the North Vietnamese blasted their way through the wire with bangalore torpedoes, then rushed in with flamethrowers. Korean Captain Chung Kyong Gin, 32, swiftly sent two squads to plug the holes in the wire, then set his men loose to kill the Reds trapped inside the perimeter. It was knife to knife and hand to hand-and in that sort of fighting the Koreans, with their deadly tae kwon do (a form of karate), are unbeatable. When the action stopped shortly after dawn, 104 enemy bodies lay within the wire, many of them eviscerated or brained...
...Overcommitted." How to plug that drain, which is caused by the U.S. balance of payments deficit-has fired increasing debate. Former Treasury Under Secretary Robert Roosa contends that the U.S. is "overcommitted at home and abroad," warns that "rapidly mounting deficits in our foreign accounts could make 1967 a crucial year for the dollar, and even for U.S. leadership in world affairs." Most bankers agree with Roosa that domestic interest rates must be lowered only gradually to protect the U.S. against a perilous outflow of dollars and gold to high-rate Europe...