Word: fuse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intense pro-occupation with personal beauty, blotting out her true nature even to herself. The desperate struggle to carry beauty into old age is touching cinema, get in an early twentieth-century atmosphere with a compelling, heavy, suspenseful tone. The mood is tense, the effect like a fizzling fuse of dynamite...
...told of seeing German tracers ripping through other men's parachutes as they descended. In one plane nine soldiers had dived through the plane's door; the tenth, laden with his 90 pounds of equipment, got momentarily stuck. A 20-mm. shell hit him in the belly. Fuse caps in his pockets began to go off. Part of the wounded man's load was TNT. Before this human bomb could explode, his mates behind him pushed him out. The last they saw of him, his parachute had opened and he was drifting to earth in a shroud...
...been schooled in sabotage by the British Intelligence Service in Britain, returned to their homeland to practice their craft. Anti-Nazi saboteurs, said the Zeitung, got their instructions by radio from London, carried handbooks with suggestive queries: "What is your first and last step when using a time fuse? What are two fundamental rules when using pistols? Mention two fundamental principles of jujitsu. What are the most sensitive parts of the body where a blow might bring death...
Grave, Good Faces. Never again in our history did material and spiritual things fuse so completely to form a civilization. The dominant impression that the Album of American History conveys is that the foundations of the country were so solidly laid down that nothing can shake them. These ancestors lived well. Their plain, unlined faces, shown in the book's 150 portraits, were good. They were grave and unaffected, erring, if in any way, on the side of gentleness. Their children were full of grace. The young women were fragile, and the young men were self-satisfied without being...
Suddenly the stadium went black. -While frenzied fans screamed above the driving rain, a soldier fixed the blown fuse. Then Shumway rallied to win the extra round...