Word: pump
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With this neatly executed bit of arson, the EOKA men marked a switch from a policy of passive resistance (TIME, March 17) to a nonshooting campaign of selected sabotage. All week long bombs went off. A pump house supplying water to a British camp was blown up; one midnight a building stocked with shiny new government lottery machines suddenly belched smoke; Cypriots crowded the streets to watch a garage filled with government farm machinery light up the sky. Troops, police and firemen were kept running, but their only captures were 220 sticks of dynamite found hidden under a truckload...
Housing. With nary a nay, the Senate okayed a pump-priming Democratic bill authorizing an additional $1.8 billion in federal housing loans, as reports showed private housing starts had fallen from 64,200 in January to 60,000 in February...
...open-heart operation filmed in a University of Minnesota hospital. The patient: a pretty five-year-old blue baby named Debbie, who was wheeled into the operating room with a toy lion perched on her chest. Dr. Richard DeWall was on the scene to explain how his heart-lung pump oxygenator would take the place of Debbie's heart and lungs during the surgery. Famed Heart Surgeon Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, a pioneer in such operations, went to work on Debbie's exposed heart as a narrator filled in crisp details: "Notice the oversized aorta and beneath...
Cabinet Boss. Last week his issue was recession, and Lyndon Johnson, well prepared as usual, was in his finest hour. For weeks Senate Democrats had been drafting half a dozen pump-priming bills. By last week a $1.8 billion housing bill and a $500 million public-works bill were scorching along the Senate tracks, with Engineer Johnson holding throttle full-out. Johnson himself arose on the Senate floor to introduce two resolutions considering it "the sense of Congress" that the Administration should speed public-works spending. (Two days later...
...scientists and technicians work with freshly blueprinted tools over the incredibly complex mechanisms of space travel. With each launching of an Atlas, Jupiter or Thor-though flames may consume the bird only minutes later-the men of Cape Canaveral are testing and proving everything from an idea to a pump, amassing the knowledge that will ensure the success of man's epochal flight into space as well as the reliability of space-ranging weapons...