Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...withstand stormy waters on its exposed offshore location, Freeport will have to erect a drilling platform 60 ft. above the water. Using a method it pioneered, Freeport will pump superheated (330°) salt water down to the rock-imbedded sulphur, melting the mineral and forcing it toward the surface, from where thermos barges will haul the liquid sulphur 25 miles to Port Sulphur...
...Silliman Evans Jr. and Campaign Manager Charles Neese. They told him that if he could shake at least 500 hands a day until election time he could beat the Crump machine. He did-and won-and it has since been a slugabed campaign day that has not seen him pump at least 500 hands...
...than 68% recalled emotional disturbances. Notable among these were a death in the family, loss of a job, marital incompatibility, worry because of a previous miscarriage; 19% had "morning sickness" with vomiting. Drs. Strean and Peer reason that severe emotional disturbance, of whatever kind, stimulates the adrenal glands to pump out extra hydrocortisone; this checks the formation of connective tissue between the two sides of the palate or may actually dissolve tissue already formed. The high incidence of cleft palates among first-born they explain on the ground that first pregnancies usually involve more stress...
...airport stops Stevenson for a time would pump hands as enthusiastically as Kefauver, pose for pictures with politicians and small children ("Well, I think this young man has lost his teeth"). But at Santa Fe, N.Mex., while Estes was still shaking hands, Stevenson finally turned to an aide and asked, "Have we done enough?" They decided they had, and, after tearing Estes away with some difficulty, they entered a canary-yellow Cadillac to ride into Santa Fe for a public appearance on the Plaza and a La Fonda Hotel political conference with Democrats from seven states. Twenty-four hours...
...newsmen and Dan Gainey, Minnesota jewelry manufacturer who backed Harold Stassen in 1948 and 1952 but has grown increasingly cool toward Childe Harold. No sooner had Nixon left his car for the block-long walk to the Exposition Grotto than a crowd began to gather. Nixon showed all the pump-handle efficiency of an Estes Kefauver in shaking hands with cab drivers, tourists, shopkeepers, cops, and everyone else he could reach...