Word: fuse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...type air cleansing devices, tubes for liquid food, the fukuryus could operate in deep water (most effectively at 50 feet), walk under water more than a mile an hour, stay under about ten hours. Each carried at the end of a stick a ten-kilogram explosive charge with contact fuse. A floating chamber behind the charge made it easy to handle. The fukuryus, organized in squads and platoons, were to wait till a vessel passed overhead, then ram the mine into the ship's bottom. They were to be protected from bombardment by underwater "foxholes"-sections of large concrete...
...Army & Navy's proximity fuse...
...citizens discovered last week that perhaps their most potent secret weapon of World War II was not radar, not the VT fuse, not the atom bomb-but a harmless little machine which cryptographers painstakingly constructed in a hidden room at Fort Washington...
...experiment's site is Planner House,* a center in which white men and black have worked together, have followed the commandment "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Indianapolitans believe that Planner House helped their city escape wartime racial troubles: all the explosive elements were present, but the fuse was lacking...
Suffering Superintendent. Neither the physical nor mental state of West Point football was much when Brigadier General Robert Eichelberger (now Lieut. General, commanding the Eighth Army in Tokyo) became superintendent of the Academy in 1940. Watching the team take drubbing after drubbing, the general blew a fuse: "There never has been and there never will be a time when West Point will look with complacency on a 45-0 beating by Cornell and a 48-0 trouncing by Pennsylvania, especially in one football season." He spent a month persuading ex-Army Backfield Coach Red Blaik, whose single-wing formation...