Word: suctioning
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...Visitors, as they pass through the entrance vestibule, will be automatically suction-cleaned of clothing dust and shoe dirt...
Said Seaman Doil Carpenter, of Pasadena (a Monaghan man): "I was at No. 3 gun, aft, when she went down. . . . The suction pulled me under, and I was out cold when I came back up, but a cook pulled me aboard a raft. He died the night before they picked us up, from drinking salt water. Every time a wave would hit the raft, some more men would be missing...
Belly wounds have priority on the operating tables. Nurses call the belly-wound ward "Wangenstein Alley," after the inventor of a stomach suction device. In the olive-brown twilight, Wangenstein Alleys look like Spanish moss forests, with double rubber tubes descending from bottles high above each bed to the patients' noses and wounds...
...prevent fatal blood clots from stopping up heart and lung arteries after operations, Boston's Dr. Arthur Wilburn Allen watches the big leg veins where the clots form and, when necessary, opens the veins, draws the clots out by suction before they can move on and do any harm, then ties off the veins. He uses this method on hundreds of cases a year, has greatly reduced deaths from embolism...
...Belle's mission takes its crew among prodigious scenes which have seldom been so well recorded. Even the take-off into the mild sunlight has grandeur. As the swift ground shrivels into easy, floating legibility, cinemaddicts feel that sudden magical suction in the midriff which the actual experience brings. Climax of this effect: a magnificent close-up of the landing gear as it retracts, flattening like the feet of a bird in flight, and disclosing the countryside. Technicolor comes fully into its own when the Belle and the planes of her formation climb steadily over the North Sea, striating...