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Word: pumpings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decree, and the press remains under tight censorship. Because of the period of political uncertainty that preceded the coup, the Greek economy, which had been growing nearly as fast as Japan's, was headed into a recession even before the colonels seized power. Despite all sorts of pump-priming measures, such as the cancellation of $260 million in farmers' debts to the state bank, Greece's economy remains in low gear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: A Sort of Celebration | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...Struggling. The FBI also had the Remington .30-'06 pump-action rifle that someone had obligingly dropped outside the South Main Street rooming house. The FBI traced it to Birmingham-where it had been sold the day before the slaying-but whether it was really the murder weapon was uncertain. Clark initially hinted that a ballistic test had yielded positive results. Subsequent reports that the unjacketed slug had been too badly mashed for a definite comparison to be made went undenied. Whether the palm and thumbprints, thought to be the assassin's, were of any help was also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Widening Search | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...aides tenderly laid towels over the gaping wound; some 30 hard-hatted Memphis police swiftly converged on the motel in response to the shot. In doing so, they missed the assassin, whose weapon (a scope-sighted 30.06-cal. Remington pump rifle), binoculars and suitcase were found near the rooming house. A spent cartridge casing was left in the grimy lavatory. The range from window to balcony: an easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE ASSASSINATION | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...millionaires' conference," as it was called, was almost as evangelical as it was economic. British Banker Sir Siegmund Warburg announced a new holding company that would pump an initial $100 million in capital into Israeli businesses. Sir Isaac Wolfson, head of Britain's Great Universal Stores, personally got fellow delegates to sign individual pledges of $24,000 to set up a company to insure new Israeli enterprises. Retired Republic Corp. Chairman Victor M. Carter pronounced himself "happy and satisfied" with a personal $2 million investment in Israel, then produced plans for $30 million worth of new projects involving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Help on the Way | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...electric pump sends the fluid through the kidneys at a natural pulse rate and under normal blood pressures. Once through, the fluid drops from the veins and ureter into a catch basin for recirculation. Along the way, it is reoxygenated and purified, and chilled to reduce still further the likelihood of organ deterioration. When the machine is trundled from the room in which the kidney was removed to the recipient's operating theater, the pump works on a battery without interruption. Dr. Belzer has done four transplants with machine-preserved kidneys, one of which was on the circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transplantation: Storing Organs | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

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