Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...states draft anti-abortion laws, women will leave their home states and go to neighboring ones with legal abortions; illegal clinics will set high prices for their Black Market skills. These "Coathanger Closets" or "Vacuum Alleys" would endanger lives; pregnant patients would never be certain whether their abortion was performed by a doctor, nurse, midwife, or butcher. Other choices creep up on the desperate mother-to-be the home-made, self-executed method, used for centuries before modern science and legal abortions, could grow popular again; many women would understandably rather risk injury or death than have their secret exposed...
...students were applying a heat gun to a spherical flask of trimethy lamine n-oxide under a vacuum in an attempt to drive water out of the compound when the accident occurred. Farley added, "It heated up too much and detonated somehow," he said...
There were more perfect moments than anyone could have hoped for: playing Mattel Electronic Football with Ben Poquette; having big Bob Lanier call me a "dumb white boy" after I ran over his size-22 foot with a vacuum cleaner. And then giving me a big smile...
This abdication created a huge vacuum in the entire debate over the war. The result was that the so-called peace movement came to be driven by a relatively tiny group of radicals, whose public support was insignificant. To that most vocal hard core of dissenters, the issue was not the wisdom of a particular American commitment but the validity of American foreign policy in general and indeed of American society. They saw the war as a symptom of an evil, corrupt, militaristic capitalist system. They treated the Viet Cong as a progressive movement, North Viet...
...himself wheeled into the Oval Office to get his New Deal under way. In the vacated presidential desk he could find neither a pencil nor a pad of paper. He could find no buzzer with which to summon an aide. He paused for an echoing moment in this vacuum of power, then threw back his head and shouted until a secretary came running...