Word: pump
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House for commitment under the omnibus housing act of 1957. The act provided a total of $1,740,000,000 for various home-building programs, a sum that President Eisenhower declared high at the time. With recession causing concern (TIME, Dec. 30), the decision was made to pump the money into the economy. Biggest item: $107 million to help pay for mortgages on armed forces family housing...
...falls into the category of battles that were lost for want of a nail. Studying films and performance data, technicians have traced Vanguard's failure to a leak sprung in a fuel line. The leak produced two quick effects: 1) because an improper ratio of fuel was being pumped into the thrust chamber, the missile lost thrust; 2) escaping fuel spurting against the hot pump assembly caught fire, turned Vanguard into a grounded inferno when the fire backlashed to the fuel tanks. Total cost of the malfunctioning part that punctured U.S. prestige and delayed a $110 million project: about...
...rustle food for a poor starving family? Or raise the money for an undertaker?" In fact, Kennedy is even inept at the "Irish Switch," a maneuver that consists of vigorously shaking one person's hand while talking enthusiastically to someone else (Honey Fitz, a true artist, could pump one hand, speak to a second person, and gaze fondly at still another...
Many a surgeon dreams of the day when, like the mechanic faced with a worn-out fuel pump, he will be able to dip into a bank of human spare parts and fix up his patient with a replacement for.an ailing organ−even one so vital to life as a kidney or the heart itself. So far, apart from the difficulty of obtaining such spare organs, two obstacles have seemed insuperable: 1) the surgical difficulties of making all the necessary blood-vessel connections in time, and 2) the immune reaction which causes a recipient to manufacture antibodies that destroy...
...economy's increased strain stems from the confusion caused by Nikita Khrushchev's decision to decentralize the management of Soviet industry (TIME, April 15). In addition, the troubles in Poland and Hungary not only deprived Russia of valuable imports, e.g., Polish coal, but also obliged Russia to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the satellites to quiet their unrest...