Word: plunger
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...approximately 10:20 p.m., a plunger was depressed and the cache detonated. Soon after, a Japanese patrol checking the site reported that it had been fired upon by Chinese troops, even though the local warlord, an ally of China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, had kept his soldiers in their barracks to avoid clashes. At 11:30 p.m., Japan's Manchuria-based Kwantung army began attacking Chinese positions. By dawn they were joined by planes from the imperial colony of Korea. Quickly, Mukden was effectively under the empire's control. In the following months, the resource-rich region, more than...
...character for Gipp to want to get $500 down on the streptococci. Myths, legends and lies are the beams and girders of games, but isn't it a bit much the way the country has been getting ready to be appalled by Pete Rose? O.K., he's a plunger. Everyone knows gambling pervades sports. It pervades life...
...York, the time you turned up the radio and cut loose somewhere out on I-80 east. Except that now people do it onstage. Some of them actually make money at it, with friends filling in on air guitar or blowing a mean sax solo on a toilet-bowl plunger. And other people come out to watch...
Harvard is the biggest plunger, having handed $50 million to a Houston- based consortium. The backers insist that putting money into drilling is a brainy idea, even though energy prices are in the doldrums. Insists Scott Sperling, a partner in Harvard's investment unit: "We're getting in near the bottom...
...jury box, DeSisto pleaded with the jurors to try to relive the crime, to put themselves in the room where Sunny von Bulow went into her two comas. As if holding a syringe in his hand, DeSisto asked, "Can you see it? As he was pushing the plunger down, can you see it? The defendant then sat down and read a book . . . Think about that room and stay there all afternoon while his wife is unconscious. Stay there until you can hear Martha von Bulow rattle. Rattle...