Word: plug
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...opportunity for our membership to get exposed to a wide range of political ideologies.” Weatherl underscored the role that students can play in the political process. “I think the HRC is going to have a huge opportunity to get involved with the campaign, plug students into the political process, and elect Senator John McCain as the next president of the United States,” he said. John McCain posters, t-shirts and stickers were available for purchase in the back of the hall. Literature Professor Ruth Wisse, faculty adviser of the HRC, said...
Admirers called the civil rights activist an "icon," a "spark plug" and a "mother figure." For Johnnie Carr, Rosa Parks' childhood friend who helped engineer the landmark bus boycott that led to the desegregation of public transportation in Montgomery, Ala., history-making was not the point. "We were thinking about conditions and discrimination," she said. As a member turned president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (she succeeded the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.), she organized car pools during the boycott and enrolled her son in the all-white Montgomery school system in a legal test case. Carr...
Brown opened up its largest lead of the game, 61-35, with 9:39 to play on a three-pointer by Adrian Williams, the Bears spark-plug guard who finished with 13 points and two steals...
...Electric cars, which have existed for more than 100 years, are becoming all the rage - both GM and Toyota have said they will manufacture plug-in hybrids by 2010. But Agassi's plan stands out because it focuses on the infrastructure for recharging cars instead of on the vehicles themselves...
...rearview mirror as I cozy up and prepare for the return. Nonstop round-trips must not be common. 4:09 AM—My jaunt on the shuttle comes to an end as we pull into Lamont. I thank the driver, take my last few breaths of fresh air, plug my nose, cover up any exposed wounds, and enter Lamont’s filthy stank...