Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is humor too-often right in the midst of misfortune, as in what might be called "Coming Home from the Funeral." And there is small-boy adventure, whether with girls or tram rides or being sent to the tobacconist's for "an ounce of Cavendish cut-plug." O'Casey everywhere respects the dignity of childhood as a full existence in itself, as he recaptures a boy's hazy sense that a world offered by Victorian grownups as square is, all the same round...
...mother-providing a resonant voice box, I Knock at the Door wisely puts adroit storytelling ahead of theatrical effect. If four walls and a passion can make a good play, almost as much can be had from six chairs and a prose style; and an ounce of Cavendish cut-plug can be worth a pound of routine theatrics...
...content to stop there. Just as today's military radar sets, bombing systems, and automatic pilots are so fantastically complex that they must be removed and sent back to the factory for maintenance, so tomorrow's new radar ranges, electronic dishwashers and color TV consoles will have plug-in motors and control units that only factory experts will repair with special tools and special knowledge. The major labor the U.S. repairman will be called upon to perform-at his $5-an-hour fee-will be to take out a nonfunctioning unit, plug in a substitute and ship...
...scheduled for Saturday morning, Lamar has had to make a number of temporary shifts in what was a fairly well settled starting line-up. The middle of the line has been heaviest hit so Lamar has moved up his third and fourth guards and shifted a reserve tackle to plug up the gaps in his forward wall...
...profit in fiscal 1956 to $850,000. Yet the 102's tendency to ice at high altitudes has still not been licked. During 1956, Bristol tried to correct the icing, which caused dangerous flameouts. Finally, it devised a still not entirely satisfactory solution: a platinum glow plug "pilot light" that automatically relights an engine if it goes out. Meanwhile, the same problems have held up the longer-range (5,000-mile) Britannia 310 series...