1.   Packard, whose father was a lawyer and mother a high school teacher in Colorado, had a distorted thumb after childhood experiments with gun powder.

2.   Setting off fire crackers is still playing with gun powder, which, hopefully, the leaders of China, Taiwan and the United States well understand.

3.   The air was thick and gray, with clouds of gun powder that hit you in the face, clutched your throat and masked your eyes.

4.   The Navy later recanted, saying that the actual cause may never be known while suggesting that an accidental over-ramming of gun propellant powder could have sparked the explosion.

5.   There were prohibitions against slaughterhouses and the manufacturing of gun powder, soap, candles, starch, glue, ink and turpentine.

6.   They empty the gun powder into plastic soft drink bottles and use them to set off small explosions.

7.   This phenomenon is even more compelling when compounded by the whiff of political gun powder from an impeachment battle.

8.   Those who fire bullets that kill or wound others could be identified by tracers in the exploded gun powder.

9.   Traces of gun powder were found on both her hands, police said.

10.   Traces of gun powder were found on both of her hands after a paraffin glove test, police said.