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Nuclear detonations invariably and disturbingly raise issues about beauty and the sublime, as well as a multitude of other vital issues.
Ripple firecracker detonations erupted from the rise overlooking the barracks as the militiamen opened fire.
Other thunderous detonations resounded from the area of the airport before the all-clear siren sounded, leaving an eerie quiet.
They said several detonations, probably rockets fired from hand-held launchers were also heard.
One high-flying plane could be seen dropping flares before the detonations.
For the recalcitrants, the hell-on-earth of daisy-cutters, thermobaric bombs and the everlasting half-life of the waste from nuclear detonations.
Hearing the detonations, the local vigilantes stormed in, shooting anything that moved.
But the shattering detonations on Friday sounded like heavy mortar fire, and they shook our house to its foundations.
However, the nightly detonations testify that neither code nor law is being obeyed.
Behind me, I could hear several sirens blaring in the background despite constant detonations from the fire in front.
Greif's notion of horror seems to be noise, the louder the better, with abundant offstage detonations.
Heavy detonations, air raid sirens and the crackle of anti-aircraft fire thundered through Baghdad last night as the Iraqi capital faced a second night of attacks.
Twenty-eight-year-old Hobson designed a plan to position the old collier Memmac across the inlet, then to set off a series of detonations to sink her.
The huge detonations sent coalition staffers running into the hallways.
When we left, however, there was another air raid on and you could hear the detonations, feel the detonations even rippling through the edge of the city.
Sir Stamford Raffles, the then British Lieutenant Governor of Java, reported a series of titanic detonations loud enough to be heard in Sumatra 1,600 kilometres away.
The detonations collapsed the three-storey house in on itself, leaving a ragged hole in the street's facade, as though a tooth had been torn from a smile.
The detonations at the racecourse stand displays are louder still, and pose a threat both to wildlife and to any babies and young children living in the area.
For comparison, all explosives used in World War II, including the detonations of two US nuclear bombs, amounted to only two megatons.
The World Service reported the lack of detonations after receiving a briefing on the matter from a Ministry of Defence official.
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Filter again, and concentrate the liquor in a water bath to dryness, keeping the temperature below 100 C., to avoid detonations.
He saw men going from building to building, to set fire to them, as he presently realised, and he heard a series of dull detonations from the wheel pit of the power-house.
There were cracks, detonations, and from the cone of flame the sparks flew upwards, as man is born to trouble, to leaky ships, and to ships that burn.
Detonations and falls were heard on all sides, great overthrows of icebergs, which altered the whole landscape like a diorama.
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