Word: plunger
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...such cases the old rule of caveat emptor especially prevails. The offbeat plunger can make a big splash if he is lucky; he can also quickly go under. Bankers and investment houses usually shy away from such unusual and high-risk opportunities, but potential investors seldom have trouble hearing about them. Word travels rapidly through accountants, special brokers, newspaper advertisements, relatives or neighbors who want to let someone in on a good thing-they hope...
...earlier dropped their options. Undeterred by the fears of other angels, Susskind and his Talent Associates-Paramount, Ltd. rushed in, somehow found $350,000 lying around. To round out the nut, they talked Columbia Records into ponying up $50,000 and got the remaining $250,000 from Producer-Plunger Joseph E. Levine...
Squeeze the Heart. But doctors still wanted something more automatic and reliable. Working with engineers of Massachusetts' Brunswick Manufacturing Co., they devised the Thumper, which is basically a small (1½ in. by 3 in.) pneumatic plunger strapped to the chest (see cut). Powered entirely by compressed oxygen (small tanks in portable units, bigger ones in hospitals), the HLR supplies a puff of oxygen twelve times a minute through a face mask, while the plunger, which replaces the rescuer's hands, bounces up and down on the victim's breastbone 60 times a minute. On the downstroke...
...iridescent blue spots gleaming on the deeper velvet blue of its body, hesitated at the coral's edge; half a dozen gaudy parrot fish cruised along the ocean bottom, crunching and chittering as they fed. Cautiously, Roberts extended his gun toward the jewel fish, then quickly pulled the plunger, sucking his victim through the transparent barrel and down into the holding chamber below...
...place in the history of the submarine service. Commissioned in August 1961, she was the first of a nuclear-powered class designed to run deeper (around 1,000 ft. down), faster (35 knots underwater), and more silently than any submarine ever built. Two other Thresher-type subs. Permit and Plunger, have since been launched, and 22 others are under construction. Thresher's teardrop-shaped hull had no flat surfaces; when venturing on her deck, crewmen wore special adhesive shoe soles. The hull was speckled with more than 1,000 tiny listening devices. She could travel 60,000 miles without...