In case of terrorism or mechanical emergency at a single nuclear plant somewhere in the United States, some pills could be shipped from the vicinity of other plants, Mr. Morris said, but in many cases the pills had already been distributed to households.

I '1)ur ship developed a mechanical emergency of some kind.

Since I was in better condition to deal with mechanical emergencies than Sheila, I was driving the antique.

Our ship developed a mechanical emergency of some kind.

But, besides the application to him of the generic remark above, this carpenter of the Pequod was singularly efficient in those thousand nameless mechanical emergencies continually recurring in a large ship, upon a three or four years' voyage, in uncivilized and far-distant seas.

The ships were designed with as many commercial components as possible: the Attacks were to operate in remote regions of Australia and New Guinea, and a town's hardware store would be more accessible than home base in a mechanical emergency.