Word: pump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Concorde like we need skin cancer and further depletion of the world's oil reserves. Rejecting the Concorde would snub France, but so what? As for Britain, it might be the best thing we could do for it. Maybe we would force the British to face reality and pump money into more vital, potentially profit-making industries...
Some of that gas-pump speculation had been fueled by Ford's arrest for tipsy driving in California last year while in the company of Kathleen DuRoss, 36, a sometime model. Last week an attorney for Ford confirmed that the Detroit industrialist, 58, and Cristina, 46, are indeed living apart. "No action of divorce has been commenced by either party," said the lawyer, declining to discuss any reasons for the split...
...reports. They called the fine "unreasonable" and the sales ban unjustified since only about 1,000 cars were involved. Mindful of A.M.C.'s precarious competitive position (the company lost $27.5 million in the last fiscal year), the state may reduce the fine by 75% and require A.M.C. to pump the money saved into its antipollution efforts. Even so, the remaining fine of around $1 million would be one of the highest on record in an auto-pollution case...
Summer brought more delusions. Sure I had a reporter's job in suburban Danvers. But there didn't seem much difference between that and the variety of other jobs I'd held summers earning money to pump into Mother Harvard's coffers...
...dances and airs played on tin whistles (surprisingly debonair in sound), bones (animal), the bodhran (a goatskin drum), fiddles, harps, an oboe and, most glorious of all, the Irish bagpipes, more precisely known as the uilleann (elbow) pipes. Unlike Scottish bagpipes, which are breath-blown, the Irish pipes are pumped by a bellows under the right arm of the player, who must be able to finger and pump at the same time...