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...INTERNAL COMBUSTION NUTCRACKER gave Davis men quite a bang though it never went into full production. Walnuts were fed one by one into small cups mounted on a revolving drum. The drum turned the nuts against a saw, which nicked a hole in the shell. A tiny squirt of acetylene and oxygen was then shot into the hole. The nut, leaking gas, was dropped through a ring of flaming gas jets. The gas inside the nut exploded, blowing away the shell. "It was a humdinger," says Davis' Dean Roy Bainer. "Shelled 900 nuts an hour, and the meat just...
...Ponnamperuma allowed the electron beam to squirt through his model earth for 45 minutes. Then, with the aid of radioactive carbon 14, he made an extremely delicate analysis of the tube's contents. One of the chemicals that had been formed by the electron bombardment was indeed adenine...
...sheets of water, commanding elegant distant views. ".Such a mistake," he told Osbert, "to have friends: they waste one's time." Not wasting his own. Sir George did voluminous research on "The Correct Use of Seaweed as an Article of Diet," worked on a walking stick designed to squirt vitriol at mad dogs, planned an illustrated pamphlet entitled The Twenty-seven Postures of Sir George R. Sitwell. Projects like these ran in the family. A Sitwell kinsman went to the trouble of having his coat of arms carefully inscribed on his food...
...vulgarly handsome, he had a way of swaggering up to some pitiful little twerp and sneering down at him as he sucked reflectively on a cigar the size of a fungo bat and stroked a big, black, bushy mustache that seemed to demand insultingly: "Howzat for virility, ya hairless squirt...
...crowd of West Berlin youths to the border at Markgrafenstrasse. Some began throwing small paving stones at a Vopo water-cannon truck. The Vopos retaliated by firing a battering stream of water at the assailants-until a U.S. tank rumbled to the wall. The Vopo cannon's squirt quickly subsided into an embarrassed dribble...