Word: fuse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, though he had been ordered by the judge to confine his argument strictly to the facts of the arrest, Prosecutor Fountain, 28, insisted on adding that the fuse lighted by the Fryes turned into the five-day Watts riot that took 34 lives, cost millions in property damage, and "left a blight on our city's history that may take 50 to 100 years to erase." The prosecution contended that the patrolmen had not used excessive force on the Fryes. The defense argued that the officers' unjustifiably rough treatment of the brothers excused Mrs. Frye...
...force that through the green fuse drives the flower...
Patna's police also spent one night cordoning off an area below a mysterious, wavering filament in the sky that they identified as a "rocket fuse." At dawn, they discovered someone had tied his paper kite to a pole, and the "fuse" was merely its fluttering string...
...President, this was "a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory won on any battlefield. Today the Negro story and the American story fuse and blend...
...portable fuse jammer, details of which are still classified, offers protection by sending out electronic signals that cause artillery shells containing proximity fuses to explode prematurely...