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  • What you don't want to do is touch just the hot terminal, because then the electricity's easiest path to ground is up your arm, into your chest, through your heart, and down your legs to the floor.

    Electrical question jackwilliambell 2010

  • The electricity's off for at least eight hours a day, pretty much every day.

    Turkey Refocuses Attention On Plight Of Gazans 2010

  • Inventor Nickola Tesla is the father of the alternating current, the basis of electricity's distribution system.

    Fern Siegel: American History Revised -- 200 Startling Facts 2010

  • The electricity's out again, and it's stiflingly hot.

    'I Know I'll Get Through This' 2008

  • I always wonder where the electricity's coming from, and what circuitous series of events led up to me having a DVD player, a television, a Walkman with only one CD, and enough electricity to run it infinitely, without me having access to, say, a radio to broadcast for help.

    The Miracle Of The Sugar Packets 2005

  • The first day, for example, the electricity of the studio went, so we were sitting in a yard for eight hours, and he was just playing, and - when do you think the electricity's going to go back on?

    Spirit of Invention Defines Björk's 'Volta' 2007

  • In Baghdad, three years now, and electricity's only reliable four hours a day.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Mary Lee 2007

  • In Baghdad, three years now, and electricity's only reliable four hours a day.

    Poetry Friday -- Reading by Flashlight Mary Lee 2007

  • The electricity's supposed to be back on any moment.

    CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2005 2005

  • Y'awl probably want to come to my house next time electricity's let you down.

    Em-Bb7-A-D 2004

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