Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a series of scandals in 1954, Texas finally got fed up with the worst insurance regulations in the nation, passed 23 new laws to plug loopholes. Last week, for all its trouble, Texas was rocked by the worst scandal in the state's checkered insurance history...
Once, playing first base, he shoved his big right paw into his hip pocket for a plug of chewing tobacco. Sam McMackin, the Paterson pitcher, went into his windup. Honus shouted for time; he waved his gloved hand and jumped wildly to attract Mc-Mackin's attention. McMackin pitched anyway. The batter grounded to short...
Because of a backward policy in its technical aid relations with Egypt, the State Department, like the little Dutch boy, was only able to plug up the hold in its dike last week at the last minute. If the Russians begin to make such holes more often, Secretary of State Dulles may soon find himself running out of fingers...
...solve the problem of fading and transferable ink, he used a new ink that a Hungarian chemist mixed in a makeshift home lab. Frawley's first selling coup was to talk two banks into cashing checks written with his pens. Then Frawley started a big advertising campaign to plug the only pens with "bankers' approval." By using high-pressure selling in stores, bright, eye-catching counter displays, and full-page newspaper advertisements, he sold Paper-Mates when other pens could not be given away...
Specialists' Hash. Steiger is convinced that architecture has failed to keep pace with technological progress and, as a result, is sacrificing its supremacy in the world abuilding. His answer has been to learn more basic technology himself, and to plug for more emphasis on balanced technological training in architectural schools...