Word: pump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Markham misconstrued my remarks as an attempt to "pump myself up." They were rather intended to congratulate my teammates on a job well done, and to bring our accomplishments to the attention of the Harvard community. As cocaptain, it is my duty to rally the team and promote enthusiasm amongst its members. Speaking in a colorful manner is far more effective than the bland words towards which Markham seems inclined...
...Note to the orchestra: although the singers are the focus of the operetta, you are in no way exempt from this urging to pump up the volume: you're a moderatesized band that sounds equally wonderful playing cheery patter accompaniment or swoony love-arias, but can the second-guessed entrances and just...
Armed men have surrounded the hilltop hideaway at 255 Ridgecrest Road again. The fugitive, a break-in specialist, won't come out. "I want the s.o.b. to feel some pain," special agent Steve Searles tells two cops with pump shotguns. "I want you to put some hurt on him." Nothing happens when Searles fires his pistol. Nor when he bangs loudly on the porch with a baseball bat. He tries pepper spray, yelling, "Hey, hey, come on out of there! You can't stay there...
...ever present stench--the overpowering smell from Seaboard's 40,000 hogs closely confined in 44 metal buildings, where exhaust fans continuously pump out tons of pungent ammonia, mixed with tons of grain dust and fecal matter, scented with the noxious odor of hydrogen sulfide (a poisonous gas produced by decaying manure that smells like rotten eggs), all combined with another blend of aromas wafting from five cesspits each 25 ft. deep and the size of a football field. They are, in effect, open-air sewage ponds, and 75 ft. below lies the Ogallala aquifer, which provides drinking and irrigation...
...profitable--and lifesaving--therapies. They could, in theory, be coaxed into forming heart cells, for example, and injected to patch up heart muscle damaged by cardiovascular disease. They might be turned into neurons to replace brain cells destroyed by Alzheimer's. They may someday provide new pancreatic cells to pump insulin into the bloodstream of diabetics...