Word: pump
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...field which will offer him two alternatives. The first is to find an open receiver and try to throw him a touchdown pass. The second is to fake the pass and attempt to run into the end zone himself. The ball is snapped. Holt rolls to his left, pump-fakes toward the goalposts and keeps on running, meeting the Eli defense at the goal-line and pushing forward for the score. The Crimson wins a share of the Ivy title with a last-minute 21-16 decision...
...couldn't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that was the reason he was so uninspired. And if he's not inspired, why should I be? I'm trying to pump his film for him, right, so he's answering 'Yes' and 'No' like Broderick Crawford. 'So, really,' I say, I understand the effects cost several million dollars...
...gladhanding, Karmal's sojourn in Moscow was expected to turn up little in the way of hard Soviet aid, at least not enough to pump some life into Afghanistan's hemorrhaging economy. Instead, Karmal and Brezhnev signed a wide-ranging treaty of military cooperation. Said Karmal, with utter slavishness: "Were it not for the Soviet Union, there would be no Afghanistan on the political map of our planet, and all mankind would have been suppressed by the brutal barbarity of fascism and imperialism...
...fault, the knack of not threatening the client, either by critical insight or expressive force. When he settled in Bath in 1759, he was determined to be the mirror of the upper 5% of England, the gratin who came there to take the waters, exchange scandal in the Pump Room and pursue their intrigues, sexual and fiscal, in the ambit of the great country houses of Wiltshire and Somerset. This was not a vocation for a social critic. Gainsborough completely shared the values of the class he depicted. If that made his portraits a little monotonous in social tone...
Administration officials, fearful of starting another run at the gasoline pump, issued soothing reassurances about the cushioning effect of the U.S.'s own stockpile. This country holds a 100-day supply at current rates of consumption. Meanwhile in Paris, members of the 20-nation International Energy Agency pledged to refrain from plunging into a destructive round of bidding against one another for supplies on the spot market...