Word: sucking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shiver expressed the convention's sentiments when he interrupted by shouting: "Brother, we just knocked 'em loose from the teat a little bit. We're gonna knock 'em all the way loose and suck a little ourselves...
...thick. The method of application was developed by Dr. John Donovan Strong and others from a plating process first hit upon by Thomas Edison. The glass disk is first thoroughly cleaned with blasts of electrons. It is then placed in a big sealed tank from which pumps suck almost all the air. Within the tank is a coil of tungsten wire covered with aluminum. When the wire is electrically heated the aluminum boils off as a vapor which, when it strikes the mirror's cool surface, condenses in a thin, even film...
...transmitters of Plague No. 1 are the rat-flea and the human louse. These greedy insects suck in the virus of typhus from the blood of their hosts, pass the disease on at their next feeding point. The viruses of rat and human typhus are slightly different. But when either gets into a human being's blood they cause precisely the same symptoms...
Poland, Bohemia, the Ukraine and White Russia are the traditional lairs of vampires, living dead that sleep in their coffins by day, rise by night to suck the blood of innocent persons. Every Polish peasant knows that the only way to keep a vampire in its grave is to decapitate it, or bury it face down at a crossroads with an oak stake through the heart. This particular vampire was especially hideous, for several of the little girls had been raped...
...agricultural region has become not only inhospitable but actually dangerous to ducks. Rains early in the breeding season encourage them to settle, raise their families on shallow ponds, sloughs and potholes. Then hot, windy weather comes to suck up the water, leaves ducklings fatally high & dry. Falling water levels in larger ponds and lakes foster the decay of organic matter, the growth of microbes which give both young & old ducks botulism, "western duck disease," a form of food poisoning. At Saskatchewan's Johnstone Lake an estimated 150,000 ducks died of this disease during August and September...