Word: pump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candle light, glaring at his defunct radio, and listening to the sound of his prize maples collapsing under the weight of the ice. In the morning, as he set about trying to get back to LaGuardia Field, he made further discoveries: he could get no water (his electric pump was dead), no gasoline for his car (gas pumps were dead too), and no money for a railroad ticket because the local bank vault was operated by electricity...
...Marching Men." Lew lasted as Budget Director for just 18 months. When New Deal public works and pump-priming began, Lew Douglas knew he was licked. He went up to Hyde Park to protest. Replied Roosevelt: "But if we don't continue there will be revolutions and marching men." Lew disagreed. That day he handed in his resignation...
Bill O'Connor, Vince Moriarty, Frank Gurley, Herby Pratt, and Charley Worth won't be around when the starter's gun sends the 63-man field on its way at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Mikkola had counted on these men to pump some plasma into the Crimson this year, following last fall's mediocre season...
Today, the bomb and the revolutionary troops are as unremembered as William Stoughton's evil reputation, and Stoughton Hall continues to look down in respectable near-anonymity at students trekking past the Old Pump...
...Friday afternoon a whole tribe of "noble savages," dressed in blankets and other Indian trimmings, made a full-scale attack on Stoughton. Yard cops and students, however, managed to repulse the onslaught, and the red-men had to be content with pitching a tepee north of the Old Pump...