Word: suctioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basketed," doctors insert a metal rod that conducts high-frequency sound waves into the stone. "The surfaces tend to be pretty hard," says Urologist Robert Kahn of the University of California at San Francisco, "but once the thing is cracked, it falls apart." The fragments are removed by suction or the grabbing tool. Total time from start to finish: between half an hour and two hours, depending on the size, number and chemical composition of the stones...
Although an suction speaker stressed that the women were all volunteers and not obligated to do anything they found offensive, the event drew sexual remarks from the audience. Moreover, the woman whose plastic G-string was presented with her by the auctioneer received...
...pretty intimidating for the forwards to see a girl my size coming at them," said the 5'10" sophomore, who wore suction gloves to better handle the wet ball for the first time ever...
...climbing equipment on his back, Goodwin made the ascent in some 7½ hrs. He hoisted himself on metal hooks that he wedged into the slots designed to hold window-washing scaffolds. When one of those scaffolds was placed in his path, Goodwin simply moved sideways, grabbing suction cups that he placed on the windows. Said he: "There was a coat of grease on the windows to keep them from getting scratched. Every time I got a cup on, it would slide after about ten seconds." Goodwin's victorious arrival at the top of the 110-story Sears building...
...than atmospheric pressure, and this keeps the lung expanded; when the chest wall is pierced, air enters and forces the lung to collapse. To reinflate it, doctors made two small incisions, one just below the collarbone and the other between the seventh and eighth ribs, and inserted tubes to suction off air and any blood that might have accumulated from damage to the heart, lungs or major blood vessels in the chest. About two pints of blood spilled out. Immediately doctors started transfusing blood, using O negative, a blood type any person can accept. (Later they began using Reagan...