Crossword-Solution: NITROGLYCERINE
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| Clue | Answers |
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| CORDITE, constituent of | 3 answers |
| Explosive | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
DASORL
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with NITROGLYCERINE (5)
Chloroform, nitrous oxide gas, and ether had been placed at the service of the physician in saving life, and the revolver, guncotton, and nitroglycerine added to the agencies for slaughter.
For those who may wish to send out more elaborate invitations, the following distinctly original plan is suggested: Procure a number of small alarm clocks and a quantity of nitroglycerine or other high explosive.
Insert in each clock a small amount of the nitroglycerine, being careful not to put too much; a quantity sufficient to wreck a room 20 X 30 Will generally suffice.
What was this nitroglycerine, that exploded so dreadfully? No: she thought she should stay where she was.
Forty-eight hogs-head of nitroglycerine had been syrupticiously introduced into the cellar of the building, and more was expected.
Quotes with NITROGLYCERINE (2)
At first I'd tried subtlety, but as it happened, Dane's mind - as fierce and strong and powerful as he was - had about the level of subtlety as a locomotive that went off the tracks and then fell off a cliff. And then hit a tree and a nitroglycerine truck.
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1974).