Word: pump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hell, Hubert!" particularly when Humphrey compares himself with Harry Truman. Sometimes a few young people show up at Humphrey rallies carrying McGovern banners. They usually kibitz, with shouts of "What about the war, Humphrey?" But Humphrey has a thick skin. Always the tireless campaigner, he usually tries to pump every hand in sight. At a Chicano rally in East Los Angeles, he vigorously attempted to shake hands with members of the band -while they were still in the process of playing...
...audience is invited to have a few laughs over the blubbering anxiety of Billy's wife (Sharon Gans) as she races recklessly to visit him in the hospital. Valerie Perrine is charming, sensual and funny as Mon tana, and Ron Leibman and Eugene Roche struggle valiantly to pump life into the roles of Billy's fellow prisoners. Michael Sacks, in his first screen performance, seems desperately in need of vocational guidance...
...show in Hawaii, and this worries him, not because he misses his girl friend or his brother or his wormholed stereo, but because he misses his 1958 Porsche. What will it do without him, pining away in a garage? He writes his brother Wayne often: "Did you remember to pump the brakes?" (This tests the condition of the master cylinder.) Wayne agrees to show us the Porsche, deep in a carefully padlocked garage. He unties a silk-soft dust cover and gently folds it up onto the top of the car, being careful not to scratch the paint-35 coats...
Artificial Pump. Army chiefs could legitimately argue that South Viet Nam desperately needed new businesses to lift its weak economy. Desirable though the new businesses might be, however, many citizens doubted that the army should own and run them. Private businessmen feared that the army would use its power as a customer to divert revenues to its own companies. The army seemed likely to become the largest buyer of Foproco's canned foods, for example, and to have all its roads and bridges built by Vicco. Said an executive of one army company: "Private businessmen have a reason...
Although this complete four-chambered heart pump implant is powered electrically--with external connections or internal rechargeable batteries--it may also be powered by a small nuclear engine...