Shellacking (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Michael Crichton, _The Andromeda Strain_  NY:  Harper, 2008 edition.  p.
227

""That, plus a little squeeze." "Squeeze?" "Red-eye.  You know."  Hall
shook his head.  He didn't know.  "Sterno.  Pink lady.  You take it,
see, and put it in cloth, and squeeze it out.""

>
> Perfectly possible.  Naval "torpedo juice" consisted of alcohol
similarly
> strained.
>
> JL
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Ben Zimmer
> <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:
>
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