Word: suctioning
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...Arabella had been a bigger or a faster ship, Standish would doubtless have been pulled in by its suction, smashed by the propellers. As it was, he took quite a buffeting before he popped up in the Arabella's wake. At first he was not at all alarmed, simply embarrassed. He shouted, but nobody heard him. But he knew that on such a small ship his absence would soon be noted; the water was pleasantly lukewarm; he was a strong swimmer and could float indefinitely; he knew there were no sharks in those latitudes. "Just the same...
...second method by which the trunk weight can be transferred until it rests over the forward foot, is called the suction step. This suction step, which starts from the same straight foot-forward position, is not the work of the backward leg, but makes the transference of the weight the task of the front leg. The forepart or ball, of the forward foot (heel raised) must be implanted upon the floor, and must 'grip' the floor so firmly that the forward leg is able, by means of this firm 'grip,' to draw the trunk forward...
...this movement exhausts the catchment basins. And even the heaviest Alaskan snowfalls we can hope to expect, are inadequate to compensate. This wave motion has a suction effect, drags a lot of ice with it, thins the glacier over its length. When the impulse has expended itself, there follows a period of very rapid shrinkage at the foot of the glacier. Black Rapids Glacier may continue to move for six months to two years. Then it will recede. Five years hence it will have dwindled five miles back up its valley...
...deal with a skilled operator, Dr. George Eliot Watts of Los Angeles, graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School in 1895. In California, Dr. Watts, 62, was noted for his competency in performing abortions, for the invention of numerous surgical appliances useful in his specialty, including a suction pump to clean the uterus after an operation and a method of quickly reducing the uterus to normal size after an abortion...
...motionless behind a bush when the cubs came up and the groundskeeper duly 'squealed,' a sound made by suction of the breath through pursed lips. The vocal cord was not used. Two or three more squeals and we had them right up, just the other side of the bush, looking at us. Then one of them sat down to it, the others followed suit and there we were, the six of us, staring at each other like so many owls. When we had enough, the groundskeeper called: "and what's the game now!" Whereat they all whisked...