Word: fuse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incorporated, and we're the eleventh largest city in the state of Washington," shouted the master of ceremonies one evening last week, as 2,000 residents of Richland (pop. 23,000) gathered to watch a simulated atomic explosion and a bonfire lit by an atomic fuse. Cause for celebration: after 15 years as a company town servicing the big-secret plutonium works known as the Hanford Atomic Project, Richland had voted itself out from under the paternalistic wings of the Atomic Energy Commission and General Electric, prime AEC contractor. And the vote had carried in the face of upcoming...
Only last summer, when revolt blazed in Beirut and Baghdad, most of the prophets on the scene forecast that the racing fires of Arab nationalism must shortly fuse the Arab East into one great state. Realists urged the West to quit backing losing friends and to get right with the winners. They pointed to the miserable conditions in the lands ruled by Western allies, but had less to say about the unchanging misery in the lands of the winners. Nasser himself seemed almost plausible when he shouted that scheming colonialists had split the Middle East to rule it, drawing their...
...Amateurs. The fuse to last week's explosion had been smoldering since 1954, when West Coast Industrialist Norton Simon (Hunt Foods, Ohio Match Co.) began to acquire a controlling 35% interest in the widely held McCall stock. He reorganized the board in his favor, and last year startled Madison Avenue by bringing in Langlie as president. Puritanical, parsimonious Lawyer Langlie was a three-time (1941-45, 1949-57) Republican governor of Washington (TIME, Sept. 3, 1956), but a publishing amateur...
...shunned cigarettes, which caused users to emerge from Leavitt & Peirce "shamelessly trailing clouds of Sweet Caporal and leering at passing virgins in an abandoned manner." He favored "Java rat-tail cigars, a contriving of Pain's fireworks dimensions which burned with a clear blue flame like a fuse and possessed an aroma comparable to that of Cambridgeport city dump...
...petulant adolescent and she the woman who can be had but not possessed. Soon Christiane floats away on the superficiality that has always sustained her; Anthony sinks like a stone into the slums "to vanish up obscure alleys, to discover the filthiest restaurants and most squalid lodgings, to fuse with the dirty and the degraded...