Word: pumper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full that she had to take reservations and move to a bigger room. Still, she's skeptical about claims that the system is magical: "If that were the case, we'd close down our gyms and open Pilates studios." David Barton, Manhattan celebrity-gym owner and devoted pumper of iron, also offers Pilates classes, but he's a doubter too. All the talk of magically narrowing hips upsets him. "Find me the study that proves all this, and I will kiss that person's behind," he snorts...
...call in Aurora, Colorado, came from a woman threatening to asphyxiate herself with a garden hose connected to an auto exhaust pipe. Within minutes, nine paramedics and fire fighters aboard two pumper trucks, a battalion fire chief in a Ford Bronco and a pair of medics from a private ambulance company had converged on the scene to administer oxygen to the woman and transport her to a hospital. Across this Denver suburb, a variety of rescue scenes were being repeated in similar all-hands fashion. Boasts fire chief Ray Barnes: "When lives are at stake, we want the fullest emergency...
...just though it would be a good addition to the house," said Buchwald. He said the house committee would have to spend some of its own money to have its frozen dessert pumper, but it won't be "a huge financial burden...
About 6,000 fire fighters scurried around the state, using every method from pumper trucks to air-dropped flame retardant to 100-gal. buckets slung under helicopters and dunked in the Pacific for refills. But they could not stop the flames while the ill winds blew. Before the week was out, the 1993 acreage devoured by fire would jump by 187,000; President Clinton would declare six California counties federal disaster areas; and California Governor Pete Wilson would say, "It's pretty heartbreaking to look down from a helicopter and see these little orange squares glowing in the blackness...
...social worker sent in months before to check on the safety of the children had been shown an old bus, stripped of its seats, buried underground, to be used as a bunker. Maybe the children were safely sealed inside, agents thought. So the moment the faded red pumper trucks pulled in, the team leader grabbed his gas mask and his M-16 and led 16 men around the blaze to a concrete pit filled with thigh-deep water fouled with human waste and floating body parts. They waded forward through pitch darkness, saw rats swimming past them by the flashlights...