Word: plunger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deftly a girl picks up a cancer fragment with a trocar (a tubular needle with a plunger inside). She grabs a faintly squeaking mouse, holds it by the scruff of its neck, efficiently jabs the trocar into the skin of its belly and up under a front leg. She plants the cancer by pushing it out with the plunger. Then she reaches for another mouse...
Then Ann Neville, a seven-year old girl, skimmed across the pool three times in a fine medley exhibition. Soon thereafter, her brother, five-year old Georgia, stole the diving show from a Miss Dean, a brown-skinned plunger of NYU and Bermuda Aquacade fame...
Primarily by the efforts of punter Roger Wales, plunger Bob Woodruff, and line bulwark Tony Ripley, Lowell managed to hold the Bulls at bay throughout the second half, but the harder and faster charging Elis frustrated all attempts at a sustained offensive...
...Altogether Townley bet about $16,000 on him to win -and Sterope won by a slim half-length While Townley waited, the stewards reviewed the claim of foul. They not only disallowed it, but fined Jockey Charlie Smirke $100 for making a "frivolous objection." After collecting his $600,000 Plunger Townley said with the air of man who means it: "Betting is a fool's game. I think I'll go in for breeding...
...chief scout, Sincere S. Hocanbe, reports that the Hanover Hooligans use a tight V-formation, with a blocker on each side," said Fiend, the Crime's chief plunger. "We're going to work on all the angles, however, and perhaps we can open up their defenses...