Word: suck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stretch toward shipping berths 500 yds. out from shore at the tip of long, brightly lit piers. At one berth, the black shape of a tanker lies like a beached whale being fed intravenously. The tanker is hooked to four hydraulically powered feeder lines. All night long it will suck crude oil out of these cold mountains for the lamps and fires and engines of America...
...into the closet and suck eggs...
...events are behind the bonanza. First, the rise in the price of gold from $35 an ounce to $145 since the federal ban on private ownership of the metal was lifted in 1975. Second, the development of portable dredges, some weighing only 25 lbs., that suck in gravel and sand and separate the heavier gold grains and nuggets. A dredge costs as little as $160; diligent-and lucky-prospectors can make $200 or more on a weekend...
...Including F.W. Murnau's classic 1922 Nosferatu, the celebrated 1931 Dracula starring Bela Lugosi, Roman Polanski's 1967 black comedy The Fearless Vampire Killers or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck, a 1970 skinflick called Does Dracula Suck? and the 1974 X-rated Andy Warhol's Dracula...
Cleaning up oil spills is still very much a developing science. Such devices as booms to contain spilled oil and vacuum cleaners that suck it off the surface may work fairly well in the quiet waters of harbors or slow-flowing rivers. But the open ocean poses all but insuperable problems. Coast Guardsmen lost $200,000 worth of equipment when stormy seas forced them to abandon attempts to take off the Argo Merchant's cargo. The pounding waves rendered booms useless and stymied the Coast Guard's attempts to set the oil on fire...