Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ritual begins with a swift mutual thrust of converging palms, which grasp each other in a crushing grip and pump each other up and down like a frantic seesaw. It is accompanied by a snappy bowing of the head-almost as if to show that the participants have not paralyzed each other. It is, of course, the German handshake, a social act of such importance and frequency that it sometimes seems to dominate German life. More than any other people, the Germans firmly believe that a man's handshake shows his character, and they go through life grasping...
...level - the suppliers have a number of problems. Demand continues strong and refineries are being forced to pay more for crude oil. Labor settlements early this year have increased industry wages by 4%; dealers, also squeezed by higher wages, have long been screaming for fatter prices at the pump...
Purdy, on the other hand, likes to pump up the outside jumpers. When the squad shellacked MIT, he scored 20 points -- his best...
...thunder to the rush of 15 million speeding trucks, cars and motorcycles. Commuter trains on Japan's excellent railway system must hire "pushers" to jam the passengers into the steamy cars. A lack of sewerage results in the use of "vacuum trucks," the odoriferous tank cars that daily pump out the cesspools of the cities. And while the Japanese are better off economically than all other Asians, worldwide they still rank only 21st (after the Italians) when it comes to per capita income: $740 a year. The average Japanese family of 4.05 persons lives in only 2.94 rooms...
Jostling. The social-security increase, to begin July 1 and pump out $4.1 billion in the first year, would be financed for the first six months by the existing trust-fund surplus. Before higher payroll taxes go into effect next January, the expansionary effect on the economy would be offset by the income tax surcharge-if that is enacted. Both Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress favor some increase in social security, but the size of the President's proposal-translated into higher costs...