Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embarrasingly ill-applied makeup. At any rate, she (or her charming pink-sequined miniskirt) quickly gets the attention of Dr. Ernst. Though at first it appears that Felicia is simply in need of comfort, her more complex desires soon emerge: she wants the young doctor to quietly pull the plug on her vegetative father...
...during its first year; in nearly every area, scores for its students not only caught up to but also surpassed the average in the district. While such results would be welcome anywhere, they are especially important here because if the school doesn't produce, Wichita can pull the plug. "We were on pins and needles," says Leslie Foster, who teaches a third-and-fourth-grade classroom, "but when the results came out, we were ecstatic...
...What you don't do is plug in models," he said. "Schools grow in particular communities. It involves a lot of work, and the community must create the work...
Which is, in fact, exactly what he did. Timequake was scheduled for publication some years ago, but Vonnegut pulled the plug just before the book went to press. His reason, as he explained at the Brattle Theatre Tuesday night, was that he "didn't know what the hell it was about." Suddenly one book short of a three-book contract, Vonnegut spent the next few years overhauling the novel, drastically paring down the original "temporal anomaly" plot and filling the void with personal remembrances and ruminations...
...decades the state legislature tried to plug the gap with economic incentives. It offered scholarships to the state's only medical school, in Kansas City. It forgave hundreds of thousands of dollars in educational loans. But it was always the same story: no matter how generous the financial package, no matter how idealistic the students, after six or more years of advanced medical training, most newly minted doctors dropped any thought of hanging out a shingle on the prairie...