Word: plugs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coach Joe Restic says, "If we can stay healthy, we'll be three." A superlative defensive line and a wealth of talented signal-callers should prove the greatest Crimson strengths, and while the squad has some holes to plug, Restic's charges always manage to be competitive...
...pleasant change, says Hepburn, who lives in Switzerland and Rome. "New Yorkers are very warm; they come right up and talk to you." There also were no Givenchy gowns for the high-style star to wear. In fact the actress wears jeans throughout. Still, she managed to plug her favorite designer by slipping on a Givenchy scarf in one scene. "You see," she says with her trademark twinkle...
Officials in Washington, asserts Peters, are mainly concerned with their own survival and advancement. To that end, they all plug into "survival networks," exchanging favors to ensure that they will stay in power no matter what work they do or fail to do. Usually nothing so crass as a quid pro quo is involved, much less outright bribery, just an atmosphere of mutual backscratching...
According to their scenario, some of the molten rock from the subterranean cauldron of magma under the mountain will slowly be forced upward, like toothpaste being squeezed out of a tube. It will push through the vents in the "plug" of debris within the volcano's throat and emerge as lava. When it is finally exposed to the air, the lava will harden rapidly; it will probably not have enough volume or velocity to overflow the volcano's rim. Instead, as it solidifies, it will likely form a dome or cap over the vents. Eventually the dome should...
...Local officials feared at first that the dam might suddenly give way, sending backed-up water and mud flooding through the riverbank towns of Longview, Kelso and Castle Rock, menacing the lives of 50,000 people. By the weekend, however, water was slowly seeping through the mud-and-ash plug, and pressure on the dam had eased...