Word: plug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germany, G.M.'s Opel subsidiary was gearing up for fall introduction of its new Kadett economy sedan which seemed certain to lift still higher G.M.'s 11% share of world auto sales outside the U.S. In space, the giant automaker's AC Spark Plug division won a $16 million contract to build the guidance system for the Apollo moonship. And good as all this was, General Motors' precise, silver-haired Chairman Frederic Garrett Donner, 59, was expecting even better. To a blue-ribbon business audience at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, he calmly predicted that...
...plastic conduit, the manhole serves the patient in much the same way that a fuel oil intake in the sidewalk serves a suburban home. The conduit, 1 in. to 3 in. long, is inserted through a slit in the belly muscle. It is threaded to take a screw-plug that seals the whole apparatus when it is not in use. For irrigation, this plug is unscrewed and replaced by one with a hole drilled through on the bias. Through this hole a tube is inserted to carry the irrigation fluid. By rotating the plug with its angled orifice, fluid...
...Jack is as droll as the early Evelyn Waugh he so obviously admires. The book has some fine set pieces of English comic writing: e.g., Bandy's defeat at the hands of an antique bathtub armed with such fixtures as "Douche, Spray, Wave, Plunge, Hot, Cold, Shower, Fountain, Plug, Waterfall and Sprinkler." But Author Jack does more than play it for laughs. Men die on barbed wire and a hand sticks out of the water in the bottom of a shell hole. ("It seemed to be waving at us cheerfully. Rollo shook hands with it.") This mingling of humor...
...area of knowledge of how to replace force with law is, in fact, the world's greatest underdeveloped area." Contributing little toward correcting such backwardness was Soviet Delegate Victor Chkhikhvadze, vice president of the Law Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, who seized the occasion to plug Moscow's proposals for total uninspected disarmament. Nevertheless, there was unanimous approval of the conference's consensus report, which urged the acceptance of international law by the world community, agreement by all nations of compulsory jurisdiction by the International Court of Justice,- and establishment of an expanded world court...
with low-priced cottons, has exported almost as much in the past five months as it did in the previous twelve. To plug the flow, the U.S. invoked a gentleman's agreement-approved by 16 countries in Geneva last summer-which says that a country whose textile markets are disrupted by another country's exports can sharply restrict them. With that in hand, the Administration last week shut off imports of eight kinds of Hong Kong cotton textiles, including sweaters, shirts, raincoats and ginghams...