Word: pump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McCabe called the team's finale an "excellent showing" in light of insufficient practice and reduced team size. "One of the difficult things for us was that we didn't get enough time in the water after Christmas. We had trouble with practice schedules and had a broken pump in the Radcliffe pool," McCabe said...
...wheels of then-station wagons in the predawn blackness of Miami. Young couples in Manhattan, armed with sandwiches and hot chocolate, invite friends along for an evening of gasoline shopping. Connecticut executives regale each other with lurid tales of mile-long queues and two-hour waits at the pump. Otherwise sane citizens are in the cold grip of the nation's newest obsession: gasoline fever...
...their tanks. As a result, the nation's 117 million vehicles have become rolling reservoirs of gasoline, making the shortage worse. "I know I need only a quarter of a tank to fill up," said a housewife in Westchester County, N.Y., as she awaited her turn at the pump. "I feel guilty about it, but I can't help myself." For millions of Americans, happiness is a full tank...
...full-tank syndrome is bringing out the worst in both buyers and sellers of that volatile fluid. When a motorist in Pittsburgh topped off his tank with only 110 worth and then tried to pay for it with a credit card, the pump attendant spat in his face. A driver in Bethel, Conn., and another in Neptune, N.J., last week escaped serious injury when their cars were demolished by passenger trains as they sat stubbornly in lines that stretched across railroad tracks. "These people are like animals foraging for food," says Don Jacobson, who runs an Amoco station in Miami...
...trucker representatives and W.J. Usery Jr., director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Milton Shapp had organized the meetings and acted as mediator. Still, the agreement was not good enough for many drivers, who are demanding that the Government roll back fuel prices at the pump-a difficult, if not impossible task, because of rising world oil prices...