shaped charge

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a warhead having a concave, hollow end and operating on the Munroe effect.

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Let’s start with some etymology: What are the origins of the typographical word “bracket”?

That is a fact recorded by the doctor in charge of the ambulance at the inquest.
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The added charge for access to hotel Wi-Fi is not only exploitative but increasingly irrelevant.
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This was very blunt and surprising to hear from any official in charge of an aviation disaster.
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The religion shaped all facets of life: art, medicine, literature, and even dynastic politics.
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I was convicted a year later and sentenced to death—a charge later overturned by the Supreme Court when it called for a retrial.
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He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.
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The mother's lips could not finish the charge she was about to put upon her innocent child.
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There was a time when Aristide Pujol, in sole charge of an automobile, went gaily scuttering over the roads of France.
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They are succeeded by kidney shaped capsules of a brown color.
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Louis was not less astonished at this charge, than the Empress had been at the communication which aroused it.
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