Word: plugs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they used to. The machine that used to subjugate by crushing rather than persuading is worn out. But control through fear, discipline through fear, debate regulated by fear, they are all still alive in the souls and experience of millions. Fear can grab typewriters by the keys and plug up ears and mouths. Yet this fear is fading, and the nation is slowly coming back to life...
...Minneapolis Star Tribune gave Yale a plug. The Star Tribune said Yale had blanked the Crimson, 3-0, in January. The final was actually...
Pino, a second-year j.v. player and the team's spark plug, would like to play for the varsity squad, but realizes that a move from j.v. to varsity is not an everyday occurrence...
...space on courtroom benches. Joyce Johnson, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, began work on What Lisa Knew. Free-lance writer Maury Terry launched into The Dark Side of 10th Street. Sam Erlich, a fellow free lance, undertook Lisa, Hedda, Joel. Marie Winn, author of a television critique, The Plug-In Drug, jotted notes for an untitled book...
...teams of divers from the U.S. and South America struggled last week to plug a hole in the Argentine ship Bahia Paraiso, which had sunk and was leaking 3,000 gal. of fuel a day, squadrons of scientists rushed in to assess the damage caused by Antarctica's first major oil spill. "This is the worst ecological disaster for Antarctica, period," says James Barnes, general counsel to the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition. It is sure to stoke the already heated debate over the future of development, tourism and mining in Antarctica...