Word: plug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frightening picture of Soviet missile capability. Defense Department experts predicted that the U.S.S.R. could have some 400 long-range missiles by mid-1963, while the U.S. would have only about half that number. This was the so-called "missile gap," which became a 1960 presidential campaign issue. To help plug the anticipated gap, the U.S. deployed 1,500-mile Thor and Jupiter missiles in Europe, then gambled heavily on Polaris and Minuteman. Since their solid fuel could be stored almost indefinitely inside the missiles, they could be fired more quickly and maintained more easily than the liquid-fueled, long-countdown...
...Fair is an Indiana "mural" made up of the letters E, A and T in a crisscross, which draws an occasional visitor in search of hot dogs or pizza. It is supposed to flash on and off with hundreds of lights, but every time the fair people plug it in, it blows its own fuse. His poster for the opening of the ballet theater hangs in Lincoln Center. A show of recent work opened at Manhattan's Stable Gallery, and to top it off, somebody who obviously cared stole one of his paintings from another gallery...
...Drug Plug...
...different coils do different jobs. When the end of a metal tube is inserted into the doughnut-shaped coil, it can be shrunk tightly around any insert such as a plug or a threaded fitting. To expand a metal tube, a cylindrical coil is pushed inside it. A flick of the switch, and the tube expands to bind itself solidly to whatever surrounds it. To stamp a flat piece of metal with a pattern, a trademark of elaborate lettering, the metal is placed between a flat coil and a die. When the coil is activated, the opposing magnetic field...
Meanwhile, the plug will stay pulled, until next month at least, when Udall will study the newest spring water runoff figures. If he decides that Hoover still needs additional power, and if private groups cannot take on the job, the Upper Basin gates will stay open and Glen Canyon will go down the drain...