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...heart is a pump but also a living organ: while it is pumping blood to the rest of the body, it has to keep up its own blood supply. When it fails to get enough blood, there is trouble. Plugging of a coronary artery (coronary thrombosis) is one of the commonest reasons why the heart fails to get enough blood...
Last week, ex-Interior Secretary Harold Ickes followed this pattern as he began describing "My Twelve Years with F.D.R." in the Saturday Evening Post. He took a wallop at Harry Hopkins' WPA: "[Harry] was not priming the pump; he was just turning on the fireplug." He indignantly described an undercover effort by Henry Wallace to get him out of the Cabinet. Wrote he of Henry in a 1938 diary entry: "Henry Wallace is a selfish and not too forthright individual who is so consumed with his political ambition that there isn't anything that...
Some 180 Class members have arranged to wear full fireman's regalia, with a ten-piece fireman's band and an old-style fireman's hand pump in the vanguard of the procession...
...York is the fountain-spout of U.S. culture, the intellectual gateway to England and Europe, a pump from which ideas-both good & bad-flood out over the world. It is a citadel of opera and art; its 32 legitimate theaters are the heartland of the U.S. stage. Its rich and haughty cosmetic queens determine the type of cream with which millions of women grease their faces before retiring; its beauty salons force them to cut their hair. Its Hattie Carnegies and Nettie Rosensteins dictate fashion; its $2 billion garment industry makes 80% of all U.S. women's dresses...
...Confusion. So most correspondents 1) hang around the British P.I.O. for handouts, and pick the brains of Arab and Jewish newsmen in the bar; 2) attend the daily Jewish Agency press conference in Ben Yehuda Street; 3) pump their Jewish and Arab stringers and contacts. The only way of getting any accurate picture is to go out yourself, and this is getting harder...