Word: pump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large part, the lawmakers' reluctance to vote a tough program of energy conservation stems from the complacency of their constituents: the long lines at the gas pump were short-lived. The immediate problem seems not supply but price. Those high prices, in combination with the recession, have al ready appreciably cut into U.S. oil demand. Why make the voters back home suffer, the legislators' reasoning goes, by enacting unpopular measures that might or might not reduce consumption further...
...20th century centaur. Away from trucks and taxis, he has no competition; all turf is his. The novice and the regular both know the cyclist's high. It derives, in part, from the knowledge that the energy comes from a live body, not from fossil fuels. The legs pump, the heart answers. After a few trips, the rider feels the course of his own blood and knows the truth of Dr. Paul Dudley White's promise: the bicycle is an aid to longevity. (White took his own advice and pedaled into his late...
...time for someone else to take over." But as for solutions, Ulam explains, "It would be most unlikely that we could get money from Russia." And although Ulam has not gone to U.S. corporations dealing with Russia for help. Goldman explains that few corporations would want to pump money into a center "that Russians see as critical of their regime." Ulam must rely on a recently-authorized team fund raising effort, the first of its kind, joining forces with Columbia to scrape together the funds to keep both their Russian research centers alive. "Even if we could expect money from...
...social reform is over, and the cycle of history has swung round to the problems he knows the best and fears the most-the lunch-bucket issues of recession and rising unemployment. To Meany, Ford's economic program ("the weirdest one I have ever seen") will not pump enough money quickly enough into the economy to do any real good...
...left. Hike for go, and Whoa for stop-found the going tricky, and there were five spills on Suicide Hill. The teams are paced by their drivers, who must take care not to burn them out in heavy slush. When a burst of speed is needed, drivers sometimes "pump" (give a series of short one-legged kicks in the snow) to aid their animals. Some drivers hold a "snub line" to prevent the animals from running off without them in the event of an overturn...