Word: spray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does not estimate how much greater damage would be caused by the vastly more powerful bombs developed since those were dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But it hints that an enemy might prefer to explode its bombs underwater to spray Washington with radioactive water. A spray of far-flying radioactive rubble from a bomb that penetrated the ground or buildings before exploding might be even more effective...
...tail section fluttered down, turning over & over, scattering debris and bodies, and smashed to rest, belly-up, on the riverbank. The forward half of the plane seemed to linger in the air. Then it too plunged down, hit the river in a burst of spray, and was gone...
O.C.I, will start eliminating this abysmal misery not with steel mills and hydroelectric plants, but with cheap soap and DDT. Among the report's specific recommendations for the first year: spray DDT in barns, homes, under sleeping quilts and on the Persians themselves; hire 200 vaccinators and send them out to the villages; begin immediate instruction in elementary midwifery. At Karaj, where the old Shah wanted to build an integrated steel mill, O.C.I, recommends instead a small blast furnace and foundry to produce the pipe which Persia will need during the plan's first phases...
...lights and microphones into their new positions. The only serious mishap so far in these live shows came last spring in the "Living Wonders" nature program when an annoyed rattlesnake from the Boston Museum of Natural Science took a bite at the microphone and glued it up with venom spray. A spare mike was rushed in to finish out the show...
Writing in the current Scientific Monthly, Drs. C. H. Hoffmann of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and J P Linuska of the Fish & Wildlife Service deftly spray this "childlike faith in what nature will provide" with mental DDT. Their conclusion is that the real DDT if used with reasonable care, need have no ill effects on desirable wildlife...