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  • I am rewarded with a hateful shove in the back, an upshift that takes, according to the company, 50 milliseconds—in case you're curious what explosive decom

    Lambo's Latest Rambo Has a Heart Dan Neil 2011

  • Also heard the MBT vent valves were FUBAR, as well as ruptures in the MBT's, sonar dome is destroyed, and I have heard rumblings of decom.

    Archive 2005-01-01 Zoe Brain 2005

  • At the same time, we're -- we were preparing for the possible decom, so there was all a couple of different moving pieces going back and forth.

    CNN Transcript May 27, 2005 2005

  • If I do not forget it, I will send you, per next mail, a pinch of decom. (decomposed rock) which I pinched with thumb and finger from Wide West ledge a while ago.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • It could go pretty deep, depending on how long the crew could face in decom afterwards.

    Not the End of the World Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1998

  • Indeed, the whole theory, since it decom - poses the seeming continuity of human life and culture into a series of discrete events each involving an abrupt transformation of a small portion of the life of a society, can be regarded as a kind of sociological atomism.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas THOMAS COLE 1968

  • Underneath his choice, one can detect perhaps a fear, a recoil from whatever is transformed, crumbles, decays ...; in short, he recoils from the biological laws which include decom - position as an integral part.

    COSMIC IMAGES H 1968

  • As long as FeCl or even Cu2Cl is present, if the print is immersed in the sulphocyanate solution, sulphocyanate of copper is immediately formed on the reduced parts, while on the others the sulphocyanide of copper, formed and dissolved by the sulphocyanide of potassium in excess, becomes decom ‐ posed with water in soluble sulphocyanide of copper and deposited as such on the parts already covered with the salt.

    Photographic Reproduction Processes Peter C. Duchochois

  • If I do not forget it, I will send you, per next mail, a pinch of decom. (decomposed rock) which I pinched with thumb and finger from

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • If I do not forget it, I will send you, per next mail, a pinch of decom. (decomposed rock) which I pinched with thumb and finger from

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

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