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fallout
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  • Everybody was putting fallout shelters in their backyards, canning tap water, getting ready for the end of time.   (source)
    fallout = related to radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion
  • Thirteen students in my class made fallout-shelter models for their science project, which shows it was not just me worried about it.   (source)
  • An airburst increases the area destroyed by a nuclear blast force and decreases local fallout.
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  • His hands were packed tightly with splinters, and his teeth were caked with residue from the fallout.†   (source)
  • And what has been the fallout of that?†   (source)
  • Not even the great Bezu Fache would survive the political fallout if he had mistakenly splashed a prominent American's face all over French television, claiming he was a murderer.†   (source)
  • Somewhere, very far off, is a place called District 12, where my mother and sister and friends will have to deal with the fallout from this night.†   (source)
  • Because its main weapon was light, the fallout could be focused to an exact radius.†   (source)
  • Market day looks like you just came out of your fallout shelter after the bomb attack: nobody there but a few old guys with car parts and knives and cookpots, hoping to trade for food.†   (source)
  • As if to demonstrate what war had once been about, the Ousters scoured North Bressia-first with several hundred fallout-free nuclear weapons and tactical plasma bombs, then with deathbeams, and finally with tailored viruses.†   (source)
  • The BLU-82B is the largest conventional bomb ever built and, of course, leaves no nuclear fallout.†   (source)
  • And it could have been, except for the fallout I was suffering for rejecting Mike Evans.†   (source)
  • I waited for him to talk about everything that had happened or to warn me of the coming fallout.†   (source)
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  • Pressurized air within the complex prevents contamination by radioactive fallout and biological weapons.†   (source)
  • But I sat by for several months, watching the fallout from this man's actions.†   (source)
  • Forget spills, fallouts, leakages.†   (source)
  • The fallout: Brian told Amy she was an untrustworthy friend and stopped talking to her.†   (source)
  • Of course Charlie would explode with pride — no one in the town of Forks would be able to escape the fallout from his excitement.†   (source)
  • I felt like I'd spent the last six days scrambling around doing damage control, trying to keep my friends alive, trying to minimize the fallout from Loki's plot.†   (source)
  • Donna had thought it might have been some fallout with Maurice Sendak's book Where the Wild Things Are.†   (source)
  • The Dikoris After her fallout with Mandela, Luma tried to regroup.†   (source)
  • I heard new vocabulary: nuclear bomb, radioactive fallout, bomb shelter.†   (source)
  • I loved my family, but the fallout of my parents' divorce was something I wanted to avoid completely.†   (source)
  • They didn't have a clear idea what radiation might do, so they tracked where the wind blew it, and what happened to those who came in contact with the fallout.†   (source)
  • All the weight was lifted now, but I still had no idea what the fallout would be.†   (source)
  • Yield equivalent to over twenty-one thousand tons of dynamite plus the radiation fallout kicker.†   (source)
  • My life became streamlined, and the fallout began.†   (source)
  • "Now you can manage their fallout," I snapped unnecessarily, referring to the FBI.†   (source)
  • Finally, Yue-qing Yang's evocative documentary, Nu-shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China, helped me to understand that many women in Jiangyong County are still living with the fallout of arranged, loveless marriages.†   (source)
  • Or at least, the fallout wasn't going to be.†   (source)
  • The economic fallout or gain, the political fallout or gain.†   (source)
  • The fallout's going to keep DeBlass busy for months."†   (source)
  • I fought to keep my mouth shut because if I said what I wanted to say, the nuclear fallout would kill everything for hundreds of miles.†   (source)
  • Millions more would die later from the radioactive fallout.†   (source)
  • I'm the one who rushed in, so I'm the one responsible for the fallout.†   (source)
  • We warned that our bombs would be as destructive as H— bombs but emphasized that there would be no radioactive fallout, no killing radiation—just a terrible explosion, shock wave in air, ground wave of concussion.†   (source)
  • We can't afford that, but if we can avoid a confrontation and any possible fallout, we must try.†   (source)
  • Practical effect is similar but no fallout, thank God.†   (source)
  • A smile of lath opened amid powdery fallout.†   (source)
  • When the authorities in Tallahassee suspected that the fallout from Jacksonville, carried by the east wind, would blanket the state capital, they ordered evacuation.†   (source)
  • Site of our last conversation, kiss, fallout, whatever.†   (source)
  • People with electronic equipment appeared to be trying to detect radiation or toxic fallout.†   (source)
  • And what, to borrow a phrase, was the fallout of that?†   (source)
  • He's been wounded, and there's no sense in me collecting the fallout for Mr. Ellerby's direct hit.†   (source)
  • How do you know it's not fallout from a war in China?†   (source)
  • Collateral damage, the unavoidable fallout from his and Celine's admittedly distant relationship.†   (source)
  • I've always feared dying before, psychological fallout from my childhood near death experience.†   (source)
  • The Abo Elementary School and Fallout Shelter.†   (source)
  • Lead-lined, yes, to keep him safe from nuclear war, from the Ravage and Decay of radiation fallout.†   (source)
  • There's a sudden wind shift and the fallout blows the wrong way.†   (source)
  • Did they do all this to protect the kids from Soviet bombs or from our bombs and our fallout?†   (source)
  • It was enough to clean off that hilltop and make everybody in the city take shelter against fallout.†   (source)
  • If a man went as far south as New Zealand there might be something left after the fallout fell out.†   (source)
  • "Impregnated with fallout," Dan murmured.†   (source)
  • Strontium 90, probably the most dangerous of all fallout materials, collected in calcium.†   (source)
  • Where did you learn all that stuff about fallout?†   (source)
  • "Did you talk to him about fallout?" he asked.†   (source)
  • They drove through pretty heavy fallout, I guess.†   (source)
  • I can't believe it's caused by delayed fallout.†   (source)
  • He wasn't exercised over the fallout blanketing Tallahassee from the attack on Jacksonville.†   (source)
  • Wind's from the east, so we won't get any fallout, anyway not now.†   (source)
  • The coal regions of Pennsylvania and West Virginia were saturated with fallout.†   (source)
  • For instance, no greens, or lettuce, if your garden has received fallout.†   (source)
  • "As you are well aware," the secretariat said, "His Holiness and others in Rome have been concerned lately with the political fallout from Opus Dei's more controversial practices."†   (source)
  • Prim quietly points out the widespread fallout from that disaster--the pox scars on people's bodies, the slightly disfigured children.†   (source)
  • We were a parade of fools, open not only to the effects of chemical fallout but to the scornful judgment of other people.†   (source)
  • All I am is fallout.†   (source)
  • You mean exposure to fallout.†   (source)
  • At the same time, the mayor hadn't enjoyed the fallout from his treatment of the Lost Boys Soccer Team, and he had no appetite for another round of negative publicity in the newspapers.†   (source)
  • She drew a picture of a mushroom on the blackboard and dotted a flurry of chalkmarks for the dusty fallout that would kill us all.†   (source)
  • That is, until the inevitable fallout.†   (source)
  • Those yellow and black signs you've been seeing everywhere but never really noticed until six days ago—Fallout Shelter.†   (source)
  • She was a cold war nun who'd once lined the walls of her room with Reynolds Wrap as a safeguard against nuclear fallout.†   (source)
  • So happens the Office of Civil Defense is stockpiling rubber vomit in fallout shelters all over the country.†   (source)
  • I'm standing in an underground room at the northern edge of a great desert with filtering systems for fallout and a fully equipped morgue and there are crayon drawings pinned above the blackboard of piglets and cows.†   (source)
  • They did major shots off towers or dropped devices from planes and they put troops too close to the blast and they let the fallout drift to Utah, where kids are getting born with their bladders backwards.†   (source)
  • Or will they worry about the fate of their descendants and dose themselves regularly with X-rays or maybe set off lots of dirty-type nuclear explosions each year to build up a fallout reservoir in their atmosphere?†   (source)
  • They had received only a residue of fallout from Tampa and Orlando, and none at all from Miami and Jacksonville.†   (source)
  • With fallout and radiation, it'll be luck—the size of configuration of the weapons, altitude of the fireball, direction of the wind.†   (source)
  • If the river had been poisoned by fallout right after The Day the dead fish would have come to the surface.†   (source)
  • We must've had fallout on The Day—after all, the whole state is a contaminated zone—and maybe it affected some of my queens and drones.†   (source)
  • Several times they heard a brief bulletin: "County Civil Defense authorities warn everyone not to drink fresh milk which may have been exposed to fallout.†   (source)
  • Each hour the county Conelrad station repeated warnings—boil all drinking water, do not drink fresh milk, do not use the telephone, and, in the Sunday morning hours after the destruction of Orlando, warnings to take shelter and guard against fallout and radiation.†   (source)
  • What about fallout?†   (source)
  • ON March 1, 1954, the Lucky Dragon No. 5 was showered with radioactive fallout from an American test at Bikini Atoll.†   (source)
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