Word: pump
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...inch of loose gravel. The trick is to accelerate and brake and countersteer the car as the rear end skids violently. You must use the skid. It's like driving on ice. The best way to stop a car is to brake steadily and very hard, not pump the brakes as many people believe. Next comes emergency braking and swerving to avoid objects at high speeds. Each student is ordered to drive absolutely flat out toward a sharp curve until the last possible second. Just when he is convinced that the car will shoot off the road, just when...
...body while applauding human massacres for entertainment) and provocative (proposing that falling ill is not something that happens to us but something we choose to do). But the best moments are noncontroversial explanations of how scientists arrived at concepts of bodily mechanics. The idea of the heart as a pump, for example, occurred only in the 17th century after such mechanical devices became widespread...
...overheated water pump filled the sub-basement of Widener Library with smoke yesterday evening, setting off an automatic alarm and causing a half-hour evacuation of the building. No books were damaged and no one was injured in the incident, Thomas V. Scott, deputy chief of the Cambridge Fire Department, said last night...
William Osborne, a library security officer who discovered the burned-out pump, said last night the sub-basement was "flooded" with smoke...
...pump, which distributes chilled water throughout the building, probably burned out in the early afternoon, but it took several hours for enough smoke to build up to set off the automatic alarm, Scott said. The pump's motor will have to be rewound, but there was no "major" damage, he added...