Word: siphon
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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...
...expenditures, the President handed on to Congress a report of the Social Security Board. Mr. Roosevelt warmly approved recommendations that old-age insurance payments be started in 1940 instead of 1942, that coverage be extended to some 16,000,000 uninsured workers. Though this liberalization of benefits would inevitably siphon off some of the eventual $47,000,000,000 reserve, as the Board intended it should, the President avoided direct mention of the reserve or of the Board's advice to stop hiking payroll taxes after...
About 130 feet in, the ceiling dipped into the water, forming what speleologists call a "siphon." Unwilling to stop, Casteret inhaled enough breath for two minutes, dived into the tunnel, ready to turn back after one minute if he did not reach the siphon's end. It was short, however, and he soon emerged into another grotto. This was the beginning of explorations in the Grotte de Montespan which eventually led to the discovery of subterranean galleries inhabited by the Magdalenian cave dwellers of 20,000 years ago. Some of the Magdalenian clay images of animals were riddled with...
...heretics themselves are appalled: are building themselves Arks from the flotsam of the imagination, and hanging their viscera out for sails; they are trying to escape, choosing what is frugal rather than countenance the ferment here, where life bubbles with the effervescent rhapsodic idiocy of soda from the siphon...