Word: fuse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world today was not one but a three-gun salvo, directed not only toward Europe, but toward Latin America and Asia as well. At week's end, as near as spotters could judge, the score was one direct hit, one dud, one hit with a time fuse that had yet to explode...
...manners and social limitations of the "oldest totalitarian system on earth." His legendary imitative talents extend only to the materialistic trappings of other cultures (his "Westernization . . . has reached its climax already"). The "die-easy" liberals within Japan's congenitally feudal society have lost faith and hope-seeking to fuse two irreconcilable attitudes toward life, they "forgot to give liberalism to the people." Though Japan may never return to a point where, as in the last century, the mere intention to travel abroad was punishable by death, Hauser implies that East is still East, West still West...
...phonographic collection of works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazil's No. i composer and one of the lustiest living. Beautifully recorded by Soprano Elsie Houston, the Schola Cantorum, conducted by Hugh Ross, a scratch orchestra under Burle Marx. Villa-Lobosities: a Bachiana Brasileira for eight cellos attempting to fuse the spirits of Bach and Brazil; a Nonetto for chorus and small orchestra, purporting to describe Brazil's geography...
...Atlanta, after working the night be fore until 3 a.m. on blueprints, the general manager of Scripto Manufacturing Co., which has orders for shell fuse-boosters, confided: "My wife and the wives of the other management men are threatening to divorce us because they never see us. If I were ten years younger, I'd enlist as a buck private and let somebody else worry about all this...
...Fairchild Aviation Corp. announced development of a device which enables military plane pilots to take photographs of ground objectives at night, at altitudes up to 5,000 ft. The airman drops a powerful magnesium-powder flash bulb equipped with a time fuse which explodes it near the ground. The flash actuates a photoelectric cell in the plane, which instantly trips the camera shutter...