When you threw a lever, it would lock up the other levers so that you couldn't put two trains together".
He inserts a blister pack of powdered insulin, throws a lever to puncture the pack, squeezes a pistol grip, and poof! the chamber fills with white smoke.
It is 57 years to the day since the Queen threw a lever to start electricity flowing from the world's first civil nuclear power plant, at Calder Hall, in Cumbria.
In The Time Machine, H. G. Wells (1931) described what has become science fiction's paradigmatic conception of a time machine: the intrepid operator fastens her seat belt, dials the target date past or future into the counter, throws a lever, and sits back while time rewinds or fast forwards until the target date is reached.
Build and install the throwing arm (a lever).
Mr. Torres threw an iron lever, and when the locomotive backed up, it went off on a tangent, on a different set of rails.
Sliding the switch from "No" to "Yes" was like throwing an old-fashioned main power lever in a mechanical room.
If you have a lever harp, be sure all levers are disengaged.
Some could not find the slide in which to write his name, many were not tall enough to reach the slide, others locked it by inadvertently throwing the lever over the name of one of the duly nominated Mayoralty candidates, and hundreds forgot to bring pencils".
His efforts changed policy, threw a spotlight on practices that the men pulling the levers of power would have rather kept in the shadows, and showed just how exposed we all are to the prying eyes of the state. .
Another negotiating lever: "Tenants can walk down the street and throw a dart and find empty space elsewhere," says Bordwin. "And it's likely that the other landlord will find a way to get them in".
