Word: swab
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Women caused a stir when they first arrived at the submarine headquarters in Pearl Harbor. Men felt obliged to carry the women's heavy swab buckets and tool kits. But as the novelty of working with women faded, the men quit and the female sailors began lugging their own tools and filled their buckets only halfway to make them lighter...
...Swab the Decks...
While routinely examining a vaginal swab from a woman infected with gonorrhea, Dr. Ian Phillips of London's St. Thomas's Hospital made an alarming discovery: the swab contained a strain of gonococci, or gonorrhea-causing bacteria, unlike any that Phillips had ever seen before in his laboratory. The bean-shaped bugs not only were totally resistant to penicillin-the medication generally employed against this common and often dangerous venereal disease-but actually seemed to thrive in its presence...
...will be joined together to make the meson lab's tubes. Fitted with a small leather harness to which a strong, lightweight string was attached, Felicia unhesitatingly scurried the full length of the tube. She delivered her end of the string to workmen, who tied it to a swab consisting of a brush and cloth soaked in cleaning fluid. The swab was then pulled back through the length of the pipe, leaving the interior immaculate...
...mainly focuses on routine reality. Sample, on the perils of being without an ordinary pencil: "If Onassis knocked on the door and wanted to buy our house for a highway phone booth, I would have to sign the agreement with (a) an eyebrow pencil, (b) yellow crayon, (c) cotton swab saturated in shoe polish, (d) an eyedropper filled with cake coloring, or (e) a sharp fingernail dipped in my own blood...