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Some of it was soft enough to be removed by suction, but parts of it had to be cut away. As more and more was removed, the surgeons could see the basilar artery straightening out. They could realize the release of crippling pressure on the patient's nerves. The window in the clivus was sealed with a piece of the patient's own muscle, and the tedious job of putting his delicate structures back in place began. The whole operation took eleven hours...
...husband said the strong suction of his ventilator drew all the air from the outside hall into his room. "I can smell everybody's dinner, right down to the last vegetable," he said...
...caldron. Some varieties of trap flowers are equipped along their rims with countless tiny hairs, which appear to an approaching insect to be other fluttering insects. Once it lands on the camouflaged rim, the decoyed bug is helpless, the victim of a slippery substance that can neutralize the suction cups on a fly's feet. No matter how it struggles, the bug slides into the caldron...
...MacArthur from Corregidor and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism." A rear admiral now and C.O. of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Bulkeley, 52, is not the sort to take any guff from Fidel Castro. Last week, when Castro accused the base of using suction pumps to draw off on the sly some 114,000 gallons of Cuban water daily, Bulkeley replied: "Hogwash." Guantanamo was using its own water - the mains from Cuban territory were shut tight. "Castro is calling me a liar," said the admiral, "and I'm mad." Bulkeley then ordered workmen...
...founded by H. W. Hoover's strong-minded grandfather, who ran a saddle and harness factory in North Canton, Ohio. Despite his comfortable position in saddlery, the elder Hoover foresaw the obsolescence of the horse collar, began experimenting first with horseless-carriage accessories, then with "electric suction sweepers." Vacuum cleaners were by no means new; the first U.S. suction cleaner had been patented in 1869, and seven other models were on the market when the Hoover family began. But the Hoover Co. added an agitation bar to beat the dust out of rugs, leading to a famous old advertising...