Word: blowtorch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heat Shock. Following their normal procedure, the researchers sterilized the exterior of the core samples with a blowtorch, then used a sterile drill to remove sections containing the bacteria. Their precautions produced an unexpected side effect. When they examined chips from the Ross Island core under a microscope, they found that microbes were moving around. "We may have heat-shocked them out of dormancy," says Cameron. Placed in a nutrient broth, the rod-shaped bacteria continued to move about. The club-shaped organisms proved even more responsive. On a culture plate, they reproduced and set up colonies that looked...
Both men joined the gang around 1965. Hohimer was a career burglar with 22 arrests on his record, twelve of them for burglary and robbery. He also showed a marked penchant for violence. His favorite weapon on heists was a propane blowtorch, which he used not simply as an entry tool but also to coerce reluctant robbery victims by threatening to burn off their hair. Hohimer's former wife told police that he once cut off her hair while in a jealous rage and on another occasion emptied a revolver in a circular pattern around their infant daughter...
...where Janie has worked for three years. She was such an attraction at the plant that the company provided her with curtains to hang around her station. After work she loves Atlanta night life, and her apartment is handsomely decorated with aluminum and steel designs created with her blowtorch...
Aimee's congregation was now immense, and to keep it growing she promoted what turned out to be a 20-year slanging match with Ma, a simpering old party with a tongue like a blowtorch. It was a real power struggle: Ma had a loud voice in making church policy and a death grip on the temple's purse strings. To shake her loose, Aimee once went so far as to bust her nose. Ma struck back by dishing out some dirt about Sister Aimee's finances...
That young man was clocked at 80 m.p.h. before he hit those people. The parents were killed instantly. The youngsters were injured critically. And that young man-it took 35 minutes with a blowtorch to get him off the dashboard...