The remaining ten aircraft would be armed with 500- and 600-pound general-purpose bombs and with anti-submarine bombs intended to inflict casualties among the battleship's crew and cause underwater damage if they exploded in the water near her hull.
In my personal experience, three young males stand out who would not have surprised me if had they exploded and actually killed someone, yet there was never anything explicitly homicidal revealed, nor did anything tragic occur.
In safety tests, Toyota's engineers shot rifle bullets at its high-pressure hydrogen tanks to see if they would explode or catch fire.
They have a surreally buttressed trunk with branches that in winter look as if they are exploding out from it.
Fisher's flying pigs helped reinforce the idea of the Floyd as a brand, even if they occasionally exploded because of the volatile gas used to inflate them.
Using Kairagi-Shino, a method of firing in which pottery is removed from the kiln before the glaze completely melts, Kuwata coaxes his pieces to appear as if they are exploding from within, like otherworldly crustaceans shedding their shells.
Mr. Sprang banked sharply to give me a stomach-churning glimpse of driftwood logs that splintered as if they had exploded when they hit the bottom of the falls.
Noting the Guggenheim's unconventional use of its spaces — in 2008, the Chinese artist Cai Guo-qiang suspended in the rotunda seven cars decked with flashing neon, as if they were exploding — he says that the public spaces in the Met might conceivably be used for installations of contemporary art.
Mr. Naquin, the tribal chief, solid as a piling, rode down that only island road, where the local surnames of Naquin, Billiot and Dardar date to the mid-1800's; where patchwork wooden walkways twist over an ever-widening bayou; and where some abandoned houses look as if they had exploded.
The detonators were non-nuclear but could still have been devastating if they had exploded, so heavy hats were put over the pits to control the blast, which are among the most enigmatic of the many concrete objects built to defend Britain.
