Word: suck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leeches at the Veins. Inside the Kremlin, working on their 73-year-old patient with all the artifices of medicine, the doctors tried penicillin, oxygen mask, glucose injections for nourishment, caffeine for stimulation. They even reached desperately backward for a remedy: leeches to suck at the old man's veins...
...command, "Suck in your gut!" Dr. Gordon told the International Congress of Chest Diseases in Rio de Janeiro, may make a chubby draftee look more soldierly, but it may also damage his health. Rigid military posture prevents a man from using his lungs properly. And faulty breathing can cause discomfort over the heart, upset digestion, bring on insomnia and depression. A moderate paunch. Dr. Gordon said, might better be left to its own devices. Military or not, "the important asset of the firm, rounded abdomen is its capacity to support the diaphragm within the effective range of expiration and inspiration...
Along with lice and fleas, many other kinds of parasites swarm through the bird world. Ticks suck the blood of their hosts; mites live inside their feathers or even inside the bodies of their fleas...
Even today, fighter planes fly at such searing speeds that their engines must suck in some 18 tons of air an hour in order to keep cool. Pilots already have their own refrigeration system. Soon, says Rice, refrigeration systems will be needed for electronic and hydraulic equipment. Engineers are already searching for new oils that can withstand high temperature...
...Lowell House sophomore Irving M. Clark, Jr., '42. In 10 minutes, on the evening of March 26, Clark, clad in a Crimson sweater, gulped down 23 of the aquatic animals, his weight climbing from 158 to 165 in the process. During the sprint Clark paused only long enough to suck on an orange between fish. Circus offers followed, but the sophomore was uninterested, preferring to retain his "amateur standing...