Word: flushes
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Each man had to wait his turn to come in on the flush. Morey, Jim, and I each had our turn and got our birds. It was Stan's turn next, which turned out to be Red's. Remembering the bad time the birds had given him last year, and by studying each bird he ran to cover and by watching how each one acted, he doped out a way to catch the bird in flight. He also found that if he got in a certain position he could make that bird come out where he wanted...
...already preparing an attractive blurb for his book: "It will be a history of human civilization with emphasis on health and medicine. It will tell what people in the various civilizations ate and wore. It will tell what kind of houses the Egyptians lived in and whether they had flush toilets. That is important...
Both Green and Crimson outfits will defend unsmirched Intercollegiate records tonight, and both are flush from defeating Navy on consecutive evenings last weekend. The Middles scored two more points opposing Ulen's men than against Karl Michael's Hanoverians...
...told them that he opposed unions because they limited production. They answered with a flood of suggestions for increasing production by eliminating inefficiencies. Said Buchsbaum: "I could see how I could save thousands of dollars. . . . They had my interests at heart - as well as their own." In a flush of enthusiasm he granted the union the checkoff, a 5?-an-hour wage increase, and the right to examine the company's books...
...baby unconcernedly sucked on its bottle as a flush began to mount in its cheeks. Its blood vessels were slowly flushed clear of Rh blood (though a little remained, mixed with the donor's). Dr. Wiener let the flow continue until the concentration at the outgoing end was 90% new blood; in effect he drained and refilled the baby twice. (A newborn infant has about half a pint of blood.) After two and a half hours he handed back to the mother a healthy, rosy child...