Word: siphon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Byzantine Empire held off the Saracens for generations with Greek fire -a mixture of pitch, sulfur, quicklime and naphtha squirted from siphon-like devices. Gunpowder outmoded Greek fire in the 14th Century, and the steel warships of the 19th Century outmoded the red-hot cannonballs which often ignited wooden frigates...
...bombs, so everybody is now familiar with the second method, which is to smother them with sand and then spray them with a hand pump attached to a water bucket. A third fairly effective method for whiskey drinkers is to spray the bomb with a soda-water siphon. Fourth and most dangerous method, about to be demonstrated by the woman in the picture below, is to pick up the fin end of the bomb, whack it sharply on the ground and decapitate it. It takes about three minutes properly to extinguish a bomb by the first three methods. The fourth...