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  • Then he removed the steel-wool pad and the nine-volt battery from his pockets.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • Then he reached for the pocket flashlight on his mattress—he used this to find the bucket in the middle of the night—and removed its nine-volt battery.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • Then he reached for the pocket flashlight on his mattress—he used this to find the bucket in the middle of the night—and removed its nine-volt battery.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • The steel-wool pad and the nine-volt battery were already in his pockets.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • Inside the bag were a police scanner and the components to make the bomb: a nine-volt battery with alligator clips, blasting caps, the remote control detonator, and three sticks of dynamite wrapped in brown wax paper.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • Then he removed the steel-wool pad and the nine-volt battery from his pockets.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • Inside the bag were a police scanner and the components to make the bomb: a nine-volt battery with alligator clips, blasting caps, the remote control detonator, and three sticks of dynamite wrapped in brown wax paper.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • Inside the bag were a police scanner and the components to make the bomb: a nine-volt battery with alligator clips, blasting caps, the remote control detonator, and three sticks of dynamite wrapped in brown wax paper.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • The steel-wool pad and the nine-volt battery were already in his pockets.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • Powering up by subbing a nine-volt for a D-cell creates sparks but still no spin.

    Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the electric Volt Gene Weingarten 2011

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