`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.

Despite the clarity of his presentation, his idea was not of Einsteinian calibre.

To get an idea of the embarrassment and chagrin that was heaped upon Wright and Olgivanna, we should bear in mind that the raids were sometimes led by Miriam in person.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

Their policy ran counter to the traditional idea that a good fighter was usually a libertine, and that in sex affairs `` God-given passion '' was a proof of manliness.

Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

The idea was not even suggested because political expediency prevailed over wisdom.

He had no idea where he was.

He realized that he had no idea where the telephone was.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

While Mr. Blatz was putting up the pegboards and starting the workbench, Mr. Crombie told him of this idea about paneling the whole end of the cellar.

Instructions to relax, i.e., to be `` spontaneous '', and react immediately to whatever impulse they might have, was not sufficiently reassuring until some idea of the possibilities of normal reactions had been given.

By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.

The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.

For weeks he had been saying that Hudson's idea of sailing through to Java was absurd.

And it was Lucy Upton who first started the idea of a regular course in Music at Spelman College.

That, incidentally, might give you some idea of what Felix was like.

Well, it hadn't been what it seemed, he'd had no idea the girl was in there.

This was senseless -- he had no idea what to look for.

`` I'll get my references in order '', Needham said, and though he spoke with a smile, Casey somehow got the idea that he was not particularly amused.

Because of safety concerns, the RAF was not interested in white phosphorus as a source of ignition, but the idea of a self-igniting petrol bomb took hold.

He recalls being approached by someone representing the Angry Brigade who wished to bomb the embassy ; he told them it was a terrible idea and no bombing took place.

In January 1951, Ulam had another idea: Put the fission bomb and fusion fuel together inside a massive casing.

Achilles expects Bean to be so besotted with the idea of retrieving his children that he can be killed with a bomb in the transport container for them.

* Teller's " Super " bomb, the idea of a thermonuclear fusion bomb ignited by a smaller fission bomb

Heston claimed it was his idea that Taylor detonate the " ΑΩ " ( Alpha Omega ) doomsday bomb.

The idea of the hydrogen bomb first came to public attention in 1949, when prominent scientists openly recommended against building nuclear bombs more powerful than the standard pure-fission model, on both moral and practical grounds.

In 1952, the 10. 4-megaton Ivy Mike explosion was announced as the first hydrogen bomb test, reinforcing the idea that hydrogen bombs are a thousand times more powerful than fission bombs.

With Zaphod and Marvin's help, the group is able to infiltrate the facilities and discover that the true force behind the war has been the supercomputer Hactar ( Due to the obvious flaw in the idea that the people of Krikkit are simultaneously smart enough to develop their ultimate weapon-a bomb that could destroy every star in the universe-while also being stupid enough not to realise that this weapon would destroy them too ).

Gowdy says her inspiration for the book was the idea of a Canadian family living during the Cold War and practicing using their bomb shelter in the back yard.

Wallis's initial idea was to drop a bomb from an altitude of about.

This idea was part of the earthquake bomb concept.

In 1934 the idea of chain reaction via neutron was proposed by Leó Szilárd, who patented the idea of the atomic bomb ( British patent 630, 726 ).

Shortly after Blue Star, Parmar visited auto mechanic and electrician Inderjit Singh Reyat, who lived in Duncan, British Columbia, a small community north of Victoria on Vancouver Island, to ask him to construct a bomb, though Reyat would later claim he had no idea what it would be used for.

The concept of missile guidance originated at least as early as World War I, with the idea of remotely guiding an airplane bomb onto a target.

Val has one more bomb and one last idea: he lets the Graboid chase him to the edge of a cliff and " stampedes " it with the bomb, then jumps out of its way, sending it through the cliff-face to its death.

Scientists initially considered using a hydrogen bomb for the project, but the United States Air Force vetoed this idea due to the weight of such a device, as it would be too heavy to be propelled by the missile which would have been used.

This too was cancelled and the idea of a tactical nuclear guided missile for anti-shipping use was given up in favour of a simple " lobbed " tactical nuclear bomb.

In short span of time, Penney assembled a team to initiate the work on atomic weapons, firstly preparing a report on describing the feature, science and idea of the U. S. plutonium implosion bomb ( codename Fat Man ).

Rejewski himself stated that the device had been dubbed a " bomb " " for lack of a better idea.