Word: plugs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides stimulating profits and memories, the mail-order LPs have revitalized some lagging careers. After Chubby Checker's plug for the rock-'n'-roll collection began appearing on TV, his popularity zoomed, enabling him to boost his fee for a nightclub date from $500 to as much as $5,000 a night...
...catalogue of the President's involvement in illegal or grossly improper acts has become all too familiar. He approved the so-called Huston plan, which permitted illegal means (including burglary) to combat radicals. He established the "plumbers" unit, ostensibly to plug leaks, and it used illegal methods (wiretaps, forgery) to embarrass or spy on political foes. He impeded an investigation of the plumbers on specious national-security grounds while his aides tried to use the CIA and FBI to help the coverup...
Never has an election produced "code words" that so clearly define the issue. "Cambridge Jobs for Cambridge People" and "Citizen Participation." Read the former, "vote for me, I'll appoint my friends;" read the latter, "a process to plug up the patronage pipeline," How did we arrive at this crossroad...
...sexual inability of his sullen and slovenly brother-in-law Arthur, although last week Mom's hot flashes and the laxative nature of sister's cooking came in for their share of yucks. NBC announced last week that henceforth there will be more "warmth" written into these plug-uglies, and in an unusual step, aired two segments of the show. One ran in its usual time slot; the second came four days later, following top-rated Sanford and Son, to give all those Sanford fans "a look at the totally new direction the show is taking." Lotsa luck...
...consultant one week later. Hunt then wrote a memo to Colson detailing ways to injure Ellsberg's public reputation. It suggested gaining access to the psychiatrist's Ellsberg file. Colson reportedly relayed the memo to Egil Krogh and David Young, the White House plumbers assigned to plug news leaks, and urged its implementation. Finally, Colson has admitted raising the private funds (he says $2,000; other sources say $5,000) to finance the Hunt-Liddy trip to Fielding's office, although Colson insists that he did not know the money was to be used for that purpose...