Word: showering
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...most dramatic portion of the flechette's travels is yet to come. As it emerges from its target in a shower of hot gases and molten steel, the hot uranium again comes in contact with air. Without its ablative coating to protect it, it oxidizes explosively, producing overpressures that on a large scale could damage a tank or bunker...
Villages large enough to support a permanent school can get one fast. From six large depots in Mexico City, they can order prefabricated steel frames, desks, blackboards, a basic 50-book library, toilet and shower, and quarters for a teacher. The village pays a third of the cost (about $400), supplies such wall material as concrete, adobe or brick, and provides the labor to assemble the structure, which can be put together in a few days. "Knowing that they have contributed," explains Construction Engineer Enrique Estrada, "gives villagers a sense of pride and ownership...
...hypothesis than the extraterrestrial. The amount of evidence is overwhelmingly real." Both Hynek and McDonald cite the example of earlier scientists who for years had little patience with recurring stories about stones that fell from the sky. Yet, in 1802, when churchmen, politicians and peasants witnessed an unusually heavy shower of fragments at L'Aigle, France, the French Academy of Sciences finally had to conclude that stones-actually meteorites-do indeed fall from...
...motel with his wife Patsy, he was offered a room with a pool. "They actually meant a room with a pool in it," reports Kennedy. "I knew then that I was in some other way of life. This was not at all like Cincinnati. I told them that a shower would...
Wilkinson and his new warden, Harold Swenson, 58, a longtime associate in the federal system, quickly established a new climate. Knives and forks -hitherto forbidden as potentially dangerous weapons-joined spoons on the dining tables; fresh fruit appeared on the breakfast menu; shower rooms were placed at the end of each cell-block tier so that convicts could bathe daily instead of twice a week. Cheap transistor radios were put on sale. For the first time, maximum-security prisoners were allowed outdoors for recreation and supplied with pillows and mattresses instead of back-breaking straw ticks...