Word: pump
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...crew of the third damaged chopper pushed on to Desert One, despite the failure of a pump that propels the craft's back-up hydraulic system. It is essential, supplementing the primary hydraulic system, which operates the helicopter's control. Because the pump could not be repaired, the helicopter had to be taken out of service, and the rescue mission had to be scrubbed. Planners figured that the rescue required at least six helicopters. There were no back-up helicopters on the Nimitz; even if there had been, they could not have been flown to Desert One before...
...having been blocked by a crewman's flak jacket and bag. If so, that obviously was human error. The swirling sand, investigators say, could not have cracked the rotor blade in the second craft. The cause may never be known. The failure of the third chopper's pump also is a mystery and presumably could not have been caused by sand because the helicopters' hydraulic systems are well sealed...
Following a Wigglesworth goal to open the second half, Minuteman Jim Weller interrupted the Harvard show momentarily to pump in the second half of his afternoon deuce. Having seen enough, the red-hot Wigglesworth took a pass and went into a spinning fake that left two stunned UMass defensemen wiping the dust from their eyes while he launched a cannon for his final goal...
...plans to pinch a property of inestimably greater material value to the scepter'd isle. In The Samson Strike by Tony Williamson (Atheneum; 250 pages; $9.95), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine sets out to capture a vast oil platform in the North Sea that can pump 400,000 bbl. a day from its undersea wells. Unless the terrorists win the release of all political prisoners in Europeplus ?57 millionthey will waste the $400 million platform and set fire to the huge gushers of oil under the so-called Samson rig. The flames...
...nothing to serve but frozen succotash. Next comes Harry, a blond, muscular lout, eagerly accepting the invitation that Ramona has relayed. Earl is abashed and thus vulnerable to Harry's demand for money (to buy takeout food) keys (Harry claims that his own car has a broken fuel pump...