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Usage examples of screwdriver.

But because the brain is such a finely equilibrated and dynamic system, with great capacities for self-adjustment and control, the effect of disrupting its biochemistry by flooding it, via a pill, with some drug which affects protein synthesis, or particular neurotransmitters or neuromodulators, is more likely to be the equivalent of trying to retune a radio or reprogram a computer by jamming a screwdriver into its circuit boards.

Torrie of the way Doc Sherve looked when he squatted in front of a patient and opened his little black bag, or Uncle Hosea did when he picked up a screwdriver and took the cover off a motor, or even Mom, when she sat down with a sheaf of papers in front of her terminal.

The Airbus A330 and the Boeing 777 are almost identical in length and wingspan, but the Airbus has winglets, and the end of the fuselage on the 777 looks like a flathead screwdriver.

The 1911 autopistol, on the other hand, takes down completely without tools -- except a screwdriver for the grip panels -- and an inexpensive kit of spare parts will keep it functioning indefinitely, despite extensive use.

Mahlke was wearing something on his neck again, appended to a black shoelace: not a screwdriver, but the bronze medallion with the so-called Black Madonna of Czestochowa in low relief.

I imagined Sean Metcalfe crouching in the dark under a window or at the back door, screwdriver in hand, listening as tensely as I was, listening for signs that I had heard him.

Not everybody can calmly climb 2,000 feet into the air with a twenty-pound tool-belt of ohmmeters, wattmeters, voltage meters, and various wrenches, clamps, screwdrivers, and specialized cutting tools.

The Jewish man takes a tiny screwdriver out of a pocket in his black frock coat and pokes around with it for a minute or so.

The pilot took a wooden handled screwdriver from his back-pocket and methodically began to tighten the unshielded wires that bridged the magneto to the sparkplugs atop each of the finned, gray steel cylinders.

Crabnutt talked about Teaberry, curling, and then worked his way right back to Phillips cross slot screwdrivers.

Gesturing with the screwdriver, Pete described a stretch of hilly territory not too far from Cheyenne where it would be easy to sight, hypnotize, and drop a pretty little whitetail deer.

With the Maglite in my mouth, I opened the screwdriver part of the Leatherman and worked it into the keyhole.

WD40, several McDonalds napkins, a matchbook from some place called the Pink Lady, a folded schedule with addresses and codes he didnt recognize and a small screwdriver.

Schiller: no tie, no pompoms, no pendants, no screwdriver, nor any other item from his copious arsenal.

Mallenbrandt who was also assistant principal and was well known in sports circles because he had written a rulebook to end all rulebooks for the game of Schlagball, forbade Mahlke to wear the screwdriver around his neck in gym class.