Word: corded
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...knowledge and correcting mistakes beside a campfire. There was Private Vyazmin, excitedly babbling to his officers instruction on how to improve trench-mortar fire; and Sergeant Smirnov, that joker among scouts, telling how he distracted and captured a German motorcyclist by tying a bunch of foliage to a long cord, dragging the foliage across the road...
...enemy sentry, "jump on his back, reach both arms around his neck and shove a foot against the back of his knee. The impact is guaranteed to double him up like a jackknife and if you twist at the same time you'll sever his spinal cord...
...they solved this grave problem by vaccinating 200 mothers in the fifth or sixth month of pregnancy. About 150 billion whooping-cough germs were given to the mothers in injections at two-week intervals. The mothers developed antibodies in their blood streams, passed them on through the umbilical cord to their babies. The inoculations had no effect upon pregnancy or delivery...
Ambassador Maisky pulled a cord. The Union Jack and the Hammer & Sickle drew apart, revealed Lenin's likeness in white concrete against a red background, over a concrete block with a red marble top. A band blared. Hundreds of British throats sang, "Arise ye prisoners of starvation," and as many more of the Internationale's fine yeasty words as British heads could remember. Then came the surprise: when the band launched God Save the King, nobody sang...
Hissing flames and sparks were darting toward the curtain. One last aqueous missile had apparently landed on a frayed light cord, and, on drying, had caused a short circuit. No damage was reported...