Word: plugging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weak to negotiate and the Administration wanted the aid merely to show that the U.S. had not "copped out." Javits contended that one final injection of help could make negotiations more likely by "continuing some level of resistance" to the rebels. "I'm reluctant to pull the plug," he told the subcommittee. On purely humanitarian grounds, Javits said, he could not resist Cambodia's "cry for help...
Today Meany is fighting President Ford's economic program with the same bull-like intransigence that carried him to the peak of the labor movement. He has written every member of the House and Senate to plug the counterproposals of the AFL-CIO. The federation's six lobbyists in Washington are putting special pressure on Oregon's Al Ullman, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which is writing the key legislation. Every Monday, lobbyists from 30 or so of the federation's affiliated unions sit down with AFL-CIO representatives to coordinate their onslaught...
Henry Gross: Plug Me Into Some thing (A &M). An alumnus of the Sha Na Nas, Gross gathers a few of his friends including Terry Cashman, Tom my West and even his pet Irish setter for a high-voltage round of rural rock...
...evolutionary terms, Seascape is a very convincing plug for the amoeba, or perhaps just plain plankton...
...modern building where she works, and her boss's office is through a door next to her desk. The room where Schroder works is neat and streamlined, with a picture window and various office accoutrements--a typewriter, filing cabinets, books, a phone. Schroder is making instant coffee from a plug-in pot, without a great deal of assurance. "See," she says, laughing, "I'm not one of those secretaries who makes coffee any more...