Word: plugging
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Interceptors were confined to one zone, anti-aircraft batteries to the other. But pilots on the tail of a bomber will not let go, zone or no zone. With anti-aircraft enormously improved in accuracy, ground batteries today can plug enemies even while their interceptors are closing...
Janet Ayer Fairbank, novelist officer of the America First Committee, asked committee members to send Christmas cards this year bearing an America First plug...
Hodder shifted forward Gordy McGrath back to a defensive post this afternoon in an effort to plug the defense, which at present is considered the Crimson's most vulnerable spot. In his new position, McGrath, who has not played defense since his prep school days, alternated with Captain Greely Summers and George Dreher...
...Natal over the Atlantic, a U.S. pilot in the first group ferrying planes to the British at Bathurst noticed a cylinder "missing." He was able to return to Natal and land, though beacon and runway lights were out, the field deserted. Mechanics discovered one very loose spark plug, several wiggly ignition wires. Since then airport lights shine all night and pilots stand two-hour watches over their planes...
...American fear that German imperialism will be escaped only to be replaced by a Good Neighbor growing his old Uncle Shylock whiskers. Frankin Roosevelt is liked, but Theodore is not forgotten. Herring condemns the burgeoning official propaganda agencies which are making Good Neighborliness as obnoxious as a radio commercial plug, and he urges more movies like "The Great Dictator" and "The Mortal Storm" along with wider distribution of American magazines translated into southern tongues. He also condemns the proponents of the American Century, whose ill-concealed imperialism turns against us the very people we most need for friends...