Word: sump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the fissure, the passage becomes horizontal, and you crawl 100 feet on your belly, pushing a pack of equipment ahead of you. Further beyond, the passage leads to a shorter Gunbarrel that ends in a "sump": a low tube nearly filled with water, with only three of four inches of breathing space at the top, in dry weather. Then the cave becomes high enough to walk in and leads to miles of unmapped passages. But this is only New York. In West Virginia, or Kentucky, or Mexico, the dimensions are much more fantastic...
...averaging 110 m.p.h., while the other Fords maintained a slightly slower pace. At that rate, Shelby figured, each of the Mark Us would need new front disc brakes during the race. So his pit crews practiced until they could change both brake units and four tires, fill the sump, pump in 42 gal. of gas and clean the windshield...
...second straight championship when all sorts of little things started going wrong. In France it was a hole in a piston, in Germany a broken valve. Clark did not win another race, but still he lost the championship to Ferrari's John Surtees only because his sump ran dry on the last lap of the last race, the Mexican Grand Prix...
...slap-sticking echo of vaudeville who appears on TV's children's hour. The first time that Ed Sullivan booked the Beatles, O'Brian praised the act. But after the air waves filled with Beatle imitators, he called a halt. "If this vast musical wasteland, this sump, continues," he wrote in his column, "it inevitably will encourage young people to forget neatness, ignore barbers, bypass cleanliness and turn into a nation of slobs...