Word: sucked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force air into and out of the lungs of someone who has stopped breathing. The Schaefer prone pressure method, which first-aiders know best, does the trick by forcing the air out of the lungs in rhythmic thrusts and relying on the body's elasticity to suck it back in again. A later method, developed in 1948 by Inventor John H. Emerson, operates on an opposite principle. Emerson's idea is to lift the patient's hips off the ground at regular intervals, thus lowering his diaphragm and making him breathe in. Exhalation follows naturally when...
...hard way. From there on, the film drags in Flirtation Walk, the honor system, the show-must-go-on, a pretentious cantata celebrating the Academy and such production-number props as the U.S. flag. Through it all, breathing hard and never able to obey the cadets' admonitions to "suck in that gut," Cagney struts, mugs and rampages with the embarrassing insistence of a pugnacious drunk whom no one quite dares to lead to the door. For its best moments, The West Point Story depends on talented Dancer Gene Nelson and the pleasant voices of Gordon MacRae and Doris...
...volatile oils for hours afterwards. When his college girls took onion juice, which left no particles, chlorophyll greatly reduced the breath odor and sometimes abolished it. The only effective treatment for onion eaters, Dr. Westcott concluded, was to clean the mouth thoroughly and then use a chlorophyll mouthwash or suck a chlorophyll tablet. He found that ordinary bad breath, whether from food, drink, tobacco or an upset stomach, was easily controlled by chlorophyll...
...written in pioneer idiom; sometimes it gets to be a strain watching Richter strain for colorful expressions. But when he succeeds, they're good, e.g., "You wouldn't reckon to look at her she could read a lick, but she'd turn the old page and suck out the meaning of the new like a bird pulling out a worm...
...social functions on club premises at which women are present must end by midnight, claiming that this is required by law. Such an assertion is untrue, since police state that a private function at a club is not subject to blue laws. Through and through, the proposed rules contain suck poorly drawn up regulations...