Word: fuse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hadden Tomes, at number two, "goes bang right away, while Brownell burns with a slow fuse." Definitely an offensive player, he'll rush an opponent off his feet. He usually wins right away...
...prefab tacked on to the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, a dozen staff officers are huddled in talk. They are the advance guard of the European Defense Community (EDC)-the curious alphabetic device that is supposed to fuse the armies of France, Germany, Italy and the Low Countries into a single European Army. Among them is the first German general ever to participate in Western strategic planning: Hans Speidel, better known as Rommel's chief of staff...
REPUBLIC Steel Corp. will build a $1,000,000 plant in Toledo to make 50,000 lbs. a day of powdered iron by a new process. Precision parts (e.g., cams, gears) molded of powdered iron fuse under heat into hard, smooth shapes that need no expensive machining. If Republic, the first big steelmaker to enter the field, can produce big quantities of powdered iron cheaply, it will be good news to airplane and automakers, who never have been able to get enough...
...Lyon lit the fuse himself. A craggy-faced individualist, he sat down before the Senate Interior Committee determined to tell the unvarnished truth. He had worked for the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. and its subsidiaries for 34 years. The Truman Administration had brought him to Washington in late 1951 as minerals chief in the Defense Materials Procurement Agency. Lyon added that he draws a $5,000-a-year pension from Anaconda and that the pension is revocable at the will of the company. At that bit of information, Senators' eyebrows shot up. Washington's Democratic Senator Henry...
Scientists, always at their touchiest when their motives are impugned, began to seethe. Dr. Astin, a quiet, lanky Ph.D. in physics from New York University, has been with the Bureau of Standards since 1932, was one of the principal developers of the proximity fuse in World War II. Editorialized Science, the publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: "The independence of the scientist has been challenged ... A gross injustice has been done . . . Scientific work in the Government has been placed in jeopardy." Then the Senate Small Business Committee, headed by Minnesota's Republican Senator Ed Thye...