Word: fuse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the show hit the road in Philadelphia, with a cast that includes onetime New York City Opera Stars Brenda Lewis (as Rosalinda) and Virginia MacWatters (Adele). On opening night, a fuse blew out in the orchestra pit and delayed the show for 15 minutes. But near-capacity audiences had a rollicking good time all week. Said one surprised young lady: "I like it even better than South Pacific." Their 30-week tour will take the Met auxiliaries into more than 30 cities for some 200 performances. Weekly cost of the show: $30,000. Estimated profit? Says Bing...
...there is still a great difference between the choices. In their day-to-day policies, Socialists are fighting Moscow, but they also harass, obstruct and denounce capitalism. Socialism and capitalism have formed an alliance against the Communists; yet they have not, and cannot fuse their long-range aims...
...Iranian fuse was sputtering nearer & nearer to the powder...
Ever since his sister died four years ago, James Nelson Gernhart had talked of nothing but death and funerals. "Old Jim" had blown a fuse at the way his relatives tried to bury his sister: "They wanted to give her a stinking little three hundred-dollar funeral, bury her like a dog, but I stepped in and stopped that." Now, at 75, old Jim was alone and he wanted everybody in tiny (pop. 2,200) Burlington, Colo, to know that he, at least, was going out in style...
...pickups from Fuchs and from Alfred Dean Slack (now serving 15 years for espionage), who gave Gold a sample of a new explosive called RDX. The Rosenbergs apparently fed Yakovlev the data collected from Morton Sobell, who worked in radar and electronics, while Rosenberg himself stole the proximity fuse by the simple expedient of putting one in his briefcase at the Emerson Radio Corp...