Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sign of Weakness. When McMahon sat down, colleagues rushed over to pump his hand, largely perhaps because he had reflected the general urge to do something, or at least to propose a plan to do something...
...tense examination room, stacks of blue-books, the stern-faced proctors; he saw the terse sadistic questions: "Identify . . ." "Discuss and cite examples. . . ." "Elaborate, in essay form . . .", "Write briefly on three of the five. . . .", he felt the panic as the three hours skidded by while he struggled to pump out answers from an empty mind. Vag breathed hard, clutched the book nervously, and wrote "Chapter 10" so hard at the top of his reading notes that he broke the pencil point. He plunged into the reading ". . . The clue to the architecture of the effect or patterns is the dominance relation between...
...management should have a personnel department which uses psychological techniques in hiring workers and keeping them happy. One important way: providing a channel for opinion to flow from workers to management. Opinion, says he, is like water-it flows easily downhill, but it takes a lot of pressure to pump it up. Modern workers get a cataract of managerial opinion in bulletins and house organs, but only a thin dribble of their opinion is forced up to management...