The dangling cord controlled the final time bomb.
"The dangling cords would destroy the futuristic purity of the hovering-screen look."
Bink looked around and spied a dangling cord.
Maia seized the dangling cord and gave a savage yank with all her might.
He suddenly guessed it: the weight at the end of a dangling cord.
On either side of the river they could see the dangling cords, snapped off short, that had held the bridge.
Taking this for a yes, she held up the eye with its dangling cord.
He looked at the holes in the back of the cabinet, the dangling cords with the steel plugs at their tips.
Heart racing, she felt for the dangling cord and flooded the room with light just as the door closed quietly.
A dangling cord told what Orlinov had done.