Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economy. First there was the fuel crisis (February 1947), which brought the whole nation to a grinding halt in the depth of a terrible winter. Then came the convertibility crisis (August 1947), when the financial reserves drained away at an alarming rate until exchange control was quickly restored to plug the leak. Finally, there was last September's devaluation...
...moral fallibility. It leaves untouched the problem of expiation of sin by those whose conduct, however understandable, is morally and socially damnable. And its major thesis, that man, to win salvation, must boldly examine his acts and probe his subconscious for their meaning, is hardly more than a fictional plug for the value of psychoanalysis...
...shuffling and stomping of party leaders maneuvering for position. The Administration's tactics were: shoot the works, even on such issues as the Brannan Plan and Taft-Hartley repeal, which had little chance of passage, but would presumably make prime political ammunition later on. Administration leaders would plug hard to extend and increase social security, to jar the federal aid-to-education bill loose from the House Education and Labor Committee, to make Congress stand up and be counted on the compulsory health-insurance program...