See 16-Across

Usage examples of electricity.

Contact: a strong arman able enemyand purpose like electricity flowing through his blade, through his hand, into his body.

The secure room of the house, in the attic, was silent and aseptic around him, filled with the ozone smells of electricity and static and charged or burnt dust.

Knowing that the appearance of electricity depends on a process of atomization of some sort, we shall expect that where electricity becomes freely observable, it will yield phenomena of an atomistic kind.

The observations of electricity in a vacuum, therefore, yield no confirmation whatsoever of the atomistic view of matter.

Just as Kelsey, briskly interviewing Chia on the circumstances of her life, had devised the cover for her impending absence: ten days in the San Juans with Hester Chen, whose well-heeled luddite mother so thoroughly feared electromagnetic radiation that she lived phoneless, in a sod-roofed castle of driftwood, no electricity allowed whatever.

For some days the heat was overpowering, and the atmosphere, saturated with electricity, was only cleared by violent storms.

The institute was a thoroughly modern and up-to-date facility, in keeping with the modern and up-to-date subjects taught within its walls: electricity and electronics, mechanics, plumbing, recycling and reclamation, construction, carpentry, accounting and bookkeeping, secretarial skills, data recording, computer programming and repair, cybernation maintenance, aeronautics, solar-cell construction, electrical generating, motion-picture projection, camera operation, audio recording, hydrogen-fusion operation, power broadcasting, electrical space propulsion, satellite construction and repair, telemetry, and many more.

Railways were damaged and the Lichtenberg Power-Station put out of action, which left the main railway line to Hamburg cut and several eastern districts of the city without electricity the following day.

Skilling and Enron had become the champions of electricity deregulation, arguing that the calcified industry was ready to be shattered by competition.

A symphony of glass and concrete, the towers are the corporate epicenter for Portland General Electric, a utility that served Oregon and was pushing for the deregulation of electricity.

The whole idea was based on the inevitability of electricity deregulation, Fastow said.

This made economic sense, because Canada had lots of natural uranium and a great deal of hydroelectric power, and during off-peak times this surplus electricity could be used to separate deuterium from hydrogen by electrolysis to make heavy water.

Passion crackled through the air like the electricity sparking through the electroliers that lit the hall.

And, after all, this precursor, this runner before, was but one of hundreds of later Champlains, Nicolets, and La Salles, in the wake of whose visions came the producers, those who led forth the corn and wheat from the furrows, the trees from the forests, the coal from the ground, the iron from the hills, the steel from the retorts, the fire from the wells, the water from the mountains, electricity from the clouds and the cataract--dukes, field-marshals, generals, demigods whom no myth has enhaloed or poetry immortalized.

Had he tested out a gimmick that disrupted the electricity at the police station?