Word: pump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost of home heating oil, a major expense for consumers in the import-dependent Northeast. Several of the largest oil companies, including Exxon, Mobil, Chevron and Texaco, last week announced wholesale gasoline price increases of 6? to 10? per gal. This signals further sharp rises at the pump in the weeks ahead for motorists, who are already paying an average nationwide price of about...
...postpone their dreams for a home of their own; the average price of a few-frills new house surged from $59,000 to $65,000. Crude oil spurted to $45 per bbl. on the spot market, and gasoline sold for up to $1.28 per gal. at the pump...
Many other factors have combined to pump up the proceeds. First-rate works of art are in short supply, and becoming ever more scarce, as the auction catalogues-if not the sales figures-sadly reflect. The prizes go mostly these days to citizens of nations that do not extract excessive taxes from the wealthy: Switzerland, France, West Germany, Japan and the Arab countries. Americans remain very much in the market, however, thanks in part to U.S. tax laws that permit a collector to deduct contributions from his taxable estate if he has willed his treasures to a museum. The museums...
...incision in the abdomen or the scrotum, two expandable balloon-like cylinders are slipped into the corpora cavernosa. The cylinders are connected by tubing to a small spherical reservoir filled with fluid (which is placed near the bladder under the muscles of the abdominal wall) and to a pump (inserted into the scrotum). To achieve erection, a man squeezes the pump several times, forcing fluid into the cylinders and distending the penis. The process is reversed by pressing a release valve on the pump...
...When you reach that pumped-up feeling, and everything's tight. The tightness of the muscle, and the pump, means that you have trained well and that it will get bigger...There's a certain high to the experience in the gymnasium, it's the same high as you would experience when you come when you have sex...It's like--the ultimate. The training is like leading up to the pump and sex is like leading up to coming...