Word: pump
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Labor Handicaps. Locally the omens for a Labor victory seemed far from bright. The Conservative candidate, a dynamic business executive named Toby Jessel, 31, ran a hard-hitting campaign, hopping over hedges to pump housewives' hands and playing on the themes nearest to their hearts-chiefly rising prices and taxes. By contrast, Labor's Kevin McNamara, also 31, seemed colorless and retiring, limited his campaign pitch mainly to a call for loyalty to Wilson and the defense of government policies. Moreover, to add to Labor's troubles, a red-bearded left-wing journalist named Richard Gott...
...seeking tourists from the cruise ships and profit-seeking investors from the world over. The fuel of Venezuela's economy is the country's fabled pool of oil, greater than that of any other nation except the U.S. and Russia. The black gold that foreign companies pump from beneath the muddy floor of Lake Maracaibo enriches the Venezuelan government by $1.3 billion yearly, or about $1 per bbl. And whenever the treasury wants more, it simply squeezes the 25 foreign oil companies a little tighter-which is what it is doing right...
Qualified faculty members are often reluctant to shoulder the burden of entertaining, counseling and administration which masterships entail. Men like Hersey, who can summon the power of the artist, reporter, and statesman into the kingdom of the teacher might pump a little new life into the House system. We hope that the University will consider appointing such men, perhaps on a one-year basis, when masterships open in the coming year. The idea is worthy of experiment...
...Holy Cross freshman have a great center in 6-9 Ron Texeira, one of the most talked about schoolboy basketball stars in Massachusetts history. Their 6-7 forward Ed Siudup can pump in jump shots from 30 feet out, and their entire starting five is outstanding. But the Yardlings might beat them; Coach George Harrington's squad is just as big as the Crusaders and a lot deeper...
...salesman and fruit trader. Many of them, like Merlyn Mickelson, never went to college; others, like Arthur Decio and Charles Bluhdorn, impatiently dropped out of college in order to study in the marketplace. At the beginning of their careers, they lived lean, often taking shoestring salaries in order to pump profits back into their enterprises. In his first plant, Mickelson doubled as a floor-sweeping janitor. Many of them suffered at least one jarring failure in business, but showed a capacity to bound back unfazed...