Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then, as Howard kept shooting the remarkable pictures on the following three color pages, the drama unfolded below him. Around 11 a.m. two "cat" operators, alerted to the trouble, drove their bulldozers down the slope of the dam and began trying to plug the leak by shoving boulders into the growing hole. As Howard recalled to Reporter Susan Snyder: "My wife was excited and my kids were crying because they thought that the world was coming to an end. It was really frightening. If I had had a weak heart, maybe it would have stopped...
...Pipkin presided over that body's waffling and disagreement, never giving much leadership. He concluded his tenure by giving the unwanted chairmanship back to Rosovsky. On other matters, his record is similarly ambiguous--his work in the tightening of honors standards was foremost, but every amendment he produced to plug the original legislative holes seemed to open several new ones...
...were reported in Los Angeles during a three-month period. Game poachers use CB to outwit conservation officers. Though the California department of fish and game frequently changes its code, admits one officer, "poachers seem to know what we're doing before we do." Prostitutes ("pavement princesses") who plug their charms on CB have become so common that there is even a song about them, Rosie on the Ridge...
Gratuitous plug dept.: There's a great group out of Philadelphia, called the Visitors (featuring Earl and Carl Grubbs) that have an excellent series of albums. The Grubbs are musical cousins of Coltrane and come near to duplicating his sheets of sound style...
...because Karen was not "brain dead," few lawyers were surprised when Judge Robert Muir ruled against any "pulling of the plug." Last week the state Supreme Court turned that result around. Chief Justice and former Governor Richard Hughes concluded that if doctors and a hospital ethics committee agree "that there is no reasonable possibility of Karen's ever emerging from her present comatose condition . . . the life-support system may be withdrawn . . . without any civil or criminal liability" for anyone involved...