Word: unplugging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unplugged. Connors is an ex-jailbird. An ex-hot check passer and panhandler, he now & then augmented his income by filching nickels from telephone coinboxes. He would stuff toilet paper into the return slot, wait a couple of hours, then unplug the jackpot. He has spent over a year in jail...
...little rivers that feed the Great Lakes, an evil invader was swarming last week by the slithering thousands: the sea lamprey. It looks like a mottled, bluish eel, but instead of a proper mouth it has a round sucker, like the rubber gadget that plumbers use to unplug drains. Inside the rim are rows of small teeth. When a hungry lamprey spies a fish, it darts to the fish's side. The sucker's teeth dig in and get a firm grip. Then the lamprey worries a hole in the fish with a file-like tongue and sucks...