Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Equity demands drastic tax reform that will both cut the rates and plug the loop holes. Counted so far on the side of tax reform : Nixon...
Newest wrinkle in rocketry is the "plug nozzle" engine...
...plug nozzle engine, the fuel is burned in a doughnut-shaped combustion chamber. The gas escapes from a ring-shaped nozzle surrounding the base of a conical plug. Instead of expanding sideways, the gas follows the plug toward its point. In effect, its expansion takes place in a flaring chamber bounded by the plug and the atmosphere...
...French and Spanish for 1,900 third-graders in 49 elementary schools. But English remains Hansen's favorite basic, and better writing is one of his priorities: "It seems to me more important for us to know the structure of language than to know how a spark plug works in an automobile...
...painless pedagogue. Unhappily, the music of Oscar-Winning Dmitri Tiomkin, who is probably the world's loudest composer, bangs away on the sound track like a trip hammer. But the picture's pace is brisk, its tricks of animation are better than cute, and the plug, when the sponsor slips it in on the final frame, is modestly understated: "A presentation of U.S. Steel...