Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little discussion of the thought that preceded them. As a result, history serves more as a humanistic garnishing than as a means for the illumination of concepts. Especially in atomic physics, the Gen. Ed. courses over-simplify so much that the student may come to feel that scientists only plug numbers in formulae...
...gunbarrel device, with a bore of not less than two inches or more than ten inches. Purpose: to fire a projectile of fissionable material into a plug of fissionable material at the end of the bore, thus creating a critical mass and atomic blast...
Last week the Labor Party National Executive Committee met again to take drastic action to plug the leaks. Eying one another suspiciously as possible sources of the leaks, the members pushed through a resolution that all meetings are to be considered as "private and confidential, and no statement should be regarded as accurate unless issued by the party's office." The British press had an effective answer to that. Lord Beaverbrook's lusty Daily Express (circ. 4,077,833) gleefully ran leaks from Labor's party meeting to consider what to do about leaks to the press...
...Inner Conflict, then simply Harry (which has become at Biow the working title for all new scripts). Finally, Winsor thought up The Storm Within, a title that seemed to have everything until the sponsor pointed out that it was just a thought too appropriate for the product it would plug: Bisodol. The show is now running five days a week on CBS Radio and CBS-TV as The Secret Storm...
...Such red tape is in itself a barrier to sales. Customers will often pass up an item they can use rather than wait ten minutes while the clerk fusses with an order book and change. Furthermore, big stores carry so many competing lines of equipment that they hardly dare plug any single brand. Instead of helping a customer to buy, a clerk often merely confuses him with such generalities as "they're all good," without bothering to point out the qualities that might fit a buyer's specific needs...