ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GRENADE
From French, from Spanish granada pomegranate, from Late Latin grānāta, from Latin grānātus seedy.
TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRENADE»
The term «grenade» is very widely used and occupies the
16.006 position in our list of most widely used terms in the
English dictionary.
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8 QUOTES WITH «GRENADE»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
grenade.
What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.
I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.
I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade.
I've always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest, and his buddy next to him sits there cowering. And my feeling is that the difference is tiny between the two.
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I won't quite get it anymore. Because sometimes the grenade goes off in the moment, and then it doesn't repeat down the line.
I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRENADE»
Discover the use of
grenade in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
grenade and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pineapple
Grenade: A Novel
Then there are the roving bands of carjackers who suddenly find themselves inconvenienced. Not to mention people lurking outside sex-addiction meetings. Could this be the work of Serge, that eccentric trivialista and one-man vigilante?
Rat-a-tat prosody and scattershot, hallucinatory cultural critique, replete with grotesqueries, spit baroquely from the necropastoral ground of McSweeney's third collection.
He takes us deep into the wilderness, where we explore all that hides in plain sight. This book includes a wide, varying collection of religious & inspirational poetry and prose.
4
Hand-
grenade practice in Beijing: my part in the cultural ...
This is a quirky account of revolutionary China, written by Frances Wood, who went to Peking as a student for a year in 1975.
5
Aviation Unit Maintenance Manual for Armament Subsystem, ...
TM 9-1010-207-12 b. U0 Millimeter Grenade Launcher M75. The 40 millimeter
grenade launcher M75 (fig. 1-3) is an air- cooled, externally powered, rapid-firing
weapon capable of launching anti-personnel fragmentation type projectiles.
6
The Rocket Propelled
Grenade
“RPG” is normally translated into English as “rocket propelled grenade,” but in
fact it means Realetivnoi Protiz/otanlzovii Granatomet (hand antitank grenade
launcher). Most models can best be technically described not as “rocket
propelled ...
Coming complete with cross-section diagrams of the grenade, and excellent line drawings of how to throw it, this is the perfect book for anyone interested in grenades or the Home Guard.
Home Guard Grenade Office, 2009
8
The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia
As the stagnation of trench warfare took hold, the grenade— the rifle as well as
the hand grenade—again became commonplace. While European armies
stumbled through the process of rediscovering and inventing hand grenades, the
...
Anne Cipriano Venzon, 2013
... an increasing use of explosives. The weapon of choice of these terrorists is
often the grenade, pipe bomb, or explosive-containing vest. Other terrorists will
use a rocket-propelled grenade that was originally designed to cheaply defeat
armor.
Gregory R. Ciottone, 2006
10
The Holy Hand
Grenade: How to Get What You Really Want, Really!
Then you need The Holy Hand Grenade. Napoleon Hill said, “Desire is the
starting point of all achievement." Solomon said, “Hope deferred makes the heart
grow sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life." Yet many people go through life with
no ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRENADE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
grenade is used in the context of the following news items.
Man arrested for having grenade at his home
My husband would not tell the policemen who gave us the grenade, out of friendship and out of confidentiality. Since he would not tell them ... «Kern Golden Empire, Jul 15»
Hand grenade parts found after Malmö blast
Police in Malmö have found parts of a hand grenade outside an apartment building which was shaken by a powerful explosion on Monday ... «The Local.se, Jul 15»
Family Finds Grenade While Cleaning Out House
They have not yet confirmed whether the grenade was still active. No one was injured and no evacuations had to be made. View Comments ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»
Grenade explosion kills one person at Kuacjok market
At least one person was killed and 10 others were wounded when an SPLA soldier detonated a hand grenade at Kuacjok market in South ... «Radio Tamazuj, Jul 15»
Bomb squad called to Attleborough building site after reports of …
A bomb squad was called to a building site in Attleborough last Thursday after reports a grenade may have been found. The site, off London ... «Diss Express, Jul 15»
Santos tried using grenade to escape police, officers shot at him
Santos allegedly tried to use a live grenade to escape police. "That grenade was rendered safe by the Richland Police Bomb Squad then ... «iFIBER One News, Jul 15»
Grenade found in drying pond
Police said the grenade, if it exploded, had a 200-metre destructive range. They believed someone might have thrown it into the pond due to ... «Bangkok Post, Jul 15»
2 dead as soldiers fired shots at men who lobbed grenade
MAGUINDANAO -- Two people were killed in a sly grenade attack in Barangay Sambulawan in Datu Salibo, Maguindanao Friday morning. «ABS CBN News, Jul 15»
Grenade found in Altadena neighborhood
Sgt. Tom Crosswhite of the sheriff's Altadena Station said the grenade was corroded, in poor condition and inoperable. The Sheriff's Arson and ... «The Pasadena Star-News, Jul 15»
Amy Smart Movie -- Shut it Down ... We Found a Grenade!!
Amy Smart's indie movie's already blowing up -- well, almost -- since filming is on hold right now after a real GRENADE was found on set! «TMZ.com, Jul 15»
