infernal machine
Noun
Meaning
a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time
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time bomb
atomic bomb
hydrogen bomb
fission bomb
atom bomb
fusion bomb
smart bomb
daisy cutter
aerosol bomb
fragmentation bomb
depth charge
car bomb
cluster bomb
powder keg
dumb bomb
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You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong.
An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.