Word: plugs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plug. In Bath, England, the city fathers announced that for the first time in two years the Bath water supply was full to the brim...
...feels that direct contact with such audiences revitalizes his performances. As a shrewd showman, he refuses to appear regularly on television because he dislikes both the overexposure of TV and the fact that it can rarely offer him the time to develop a finished show. He also refuses to plug his own hits indiscriminately. Having kicked off the calypso boom in the U.S. three years ago, he abruptly refused to have anything further to do with it on the grounds that it limited him artistically...
...stage in this shoot was only a water-ballasted dummy, the first stage's performance (300,000-lb. thrust, U.S.'s biggest) promised that the hard-base missile (TIME, Oct. 13) would be ready for defense operation next year. The bird's now-certain role: temporary plug in the missile gap between the deterrent power of the Strategic Air Command's manned bombers and the oncoming solid-fuel Navy Polaris and Air Force Minuteman...
Packaged stereo sets all ready to plug in now come as low as $39.95 for a portable unit (the tone is apt to be as strident as a bluejay's cry), or as high as $2,500. Between the two extremes are dozens of sets in the $100 to $500 range, many of which make for better listening than more expensive monophonic units. Thinking of the already cluttered American living room, manufacturers also offer "self-contained stereo"-units with both speakers housed in a single cabinet. But two-speaker cabinets, unless they are six to eight feet long...
GOLD BAR TRADING is starting on the Toronto Stock Exchange, will plug Canadian gold, meet investors' growing demands for a hedge against possible U.S. dollar devaluation, i.e., by revaluing gold upward. Bars, weighing about 2.2 Ibs., cost around $1,100, but margin buyers need put up only...