Word: plugging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fouling the waters of the Santa Barbara Channel. Hickel refused to order the drilling stopped, then visited the scene and reversed his decision. Later he prompted costly lawsuits against the Chevron Oil Co. after oil fires along the Louisiana coast. Said Hickel: "I found the man who pulled the plug." At Hickel's instigation, the Justice Department also sued eight companies accused of contaminating navigable waters with mercury. Despite a parochial interest in seeing a trans-Alaska pipeline laid to the North Slope, Hickel delayed the project for nearly a year, demanding that oil companies devise a pipeline system...
...Daily Princetonian reported that a surprising number of Princeton women intended to write advertising copy for their candidates. Most of these coeds (Bang to PLUG.) found the two week period a bit trying, for they were not able in that short time span to gather enough material to create a good advertising spread. (Play "Tiger Rag," then jump to BALL...
...correct such deficiencies, Vermont's environmental control board is now trying to plug legal loopholes and set more realistic standards. But it chose the hard way to learn how to serve the causes of both industry and good environment...
...into the big, clean American sound of WUSA, the sound of a decent generation." The disk jockey is a drunken, apolitical animal named Rheinhardt (Paul Newman), whose job is to plug crypto-fascism for good ole WUSA, a right-wing New Orleans radio station. By night he delivers his spiel under the heel of the station's jackboot-minded owner (Pat Hingle). By day he wallows in booze and self-pity ("I had it made and I woke up one morning, I looked down and fell off my life") in the arms of his pathetic paramour, a hooker named...
...through her novel. Others may see evolution as a reasonably deserved survival of the fittest. Her gift, and her curse, is to see the universe as one living creature that survives only by devouring parts of itself. Even the cord of an electric typewriter can seem organic-a "hungry plug drinking a sinister transfusion...