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...Saturday the house lost $87,000 in one eight-hour shift ($36,000 in a lump to a plunger named Aaron "Stoney" Stone), but enjoyed a night's volume of $750,000 and was making profits anyhow. When the guests finally thinned out this week the stick men, dealers and special guards were pale with fatigue. The chef had taken to quitting on an average of six times a day. But Wilbur seemed to be making good as a Nevada-type hotel...
...Strike? By last week McCarthy, a plunger by instinct, knew that he was facing the gamble of a political lifetime. Much of the nominally Republican press in his own state was beginning to take another look at McCarthy's own reputation, as long as reputations were being discussed. There was a lot to talk about: his destruction of public records in a case he had tried as circuit judge (and which he had dismissed for the curious reason that the applicable law was due to expire six months later); his granting to two cronies of quickie divorces; his failure...
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...