Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...busted for arguing with a sergeant. Then, on a fiery slope near Bien Hoa in November 1965, Joel met Victor Charlie. As his platoon was devoured by enemy crossfire, and he himself took two slugs in the legs, Joel hobbled and crept through the holocaust to patch ripped chests, plug bottles of plasma into dangling arms, give bloody mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to corpses and wounded alike, shoot Syrettes of morphine into mangled men. He allowed himself only one Syrette for his own wounds, for fear that he might dull his mind and hamper his work. At dawn...
...their vast operation is typical of Canada's Expo initiators. From the moment in 1962 when International Exhibitions picked Montreal as the site for '67 (over Moscow, which showed early enthusiasm for an exhibition, then faded from contention), the Canadians began trying to achieve perfection. Principal spark plug was Montreal's dynamic mayor, Jean Drapeau, who buoyantly declared as the first-stage preparations began: "Montreal will not be plagued by lack of imagination...
...dramatize the importance of auto care, Getty provided specifics. "A single faulty spark plug," he wrote, "can add ?13 [$36.40] to the fuel bill for an average motorist's annual mileage of 7,400. Similarly, an engine filter choked with dirt can cost another ?6 in the course of a year; defective piston rings - ?5; faulty thermostat-?3; and incorrect ignition setting...
...want to embarrass you, Art, but what are you running for?" "I'm running for home in a few minutes"); consoled Neighbor Tippi Hedren on the horrendous reviews of her new movie, A Countess from Hong Kong; helped Pierre Salinger, a sometime political foe, plug both his employer (Continental Airlines) and his book (With Kennedy). Each guest-the first two shows included Comedian George Jessel, Actor Hans Conried and sundry starlets-walked off with an autographed copy of Maverick Mayor, a 256-page Yorty biography...
...ways and means of keeping the peace. In 1950, he gave the McDonnell Foundation $500,000 for just that purpose. A fervent backer of the United Nations, he not only observes the U.N.'s Oct. 24 birthday as a plant holiday but also buys full-page newspaper ads to plug his belief that all Americans should "give their time, talents and wealth in striving toward U.N. goals." At the same time, he remains convinced that the U.S. "will be criminally negligent if we wage peace except from a foundation of great strength." Accordingly, the April 4 anniversary of the North...