Word: suctioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that may be reason to sing from the mountain tops, or the top of Widener (but only if you've got those suction cups that allow you to scale the library's brick walls...
...where abortion is available. Some are urging more radical solutions. Carol Downer, director of the Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers, based in Los Angeles, travels widely to talk to women's groups about "menstrual extraction," a home-abortion procedure she co-developed in the early 1970s. A suction technique similar to the vacuum-aspiration process that is now the most common form of first-trimester abortion, it requires a 50-mL syringe attached to a flexible plastic tube, which withdraws the contents of the uterus and deposits them into a closed container...
Scenario Two: Examining the belly of John Black the Iguana, our male friend finds a surprise. "Hey! A suction cup!" he yells. Then he clumsily sticks our iguana on the TV set or computer screen. Thirty seconds later, the plastic reptile falls to the floor. Poor John...
...approached the hospital and ran into a retaining wall just out front. Five more feet and he would have landed in the waiting room. The trauma team dragged him out of the car, raced him into the emergency room, cut off his clothes and tried to use suction equipment to get the blood out of his lungs. A thoracic surgeon was called in to locate the bullet, which had entered his Adam's apple and been deflected into his lung. Hospital officials figured that they would get roughly $71 from the state for treating the patient. The first two hours...
...featured creatures this time are gigantic earthworms, 30 ft. long, capable of comic-alarming subterranean rapid transit (you just see this furrow moving across the desert at Road Runner speed). When they surface, they reveal trifurcated tongues, each extension ending in a funny-nasty suction cup. In other words, they are great special effects, informed by the mutant-monster tradition of '50s horror movies but satirizing that tradition in a delicate way -- neither condescending nor indulgent...