Word: fuse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then there was David Borden's aria for soprano and orchestra on Dylan Thomas's Force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Drives my green age. There was no clear relationship between the music and the words. The poem invokes a myriad of very different images: plant metabolism, evaporation, the action of tide and wind, and time, the dripping of blood and the hanging of a man. The music pounded along its atonal course without proper variation in color for the different verses. Borden did demonstrate his sensitivity to the poem, once, with his treatment of the reiterated...
...survive the critical strains of launching and reentry. The only trouble came five minutes and 15 seconds after launch, when an electrical overload opened a circuit breaker and cut off all power in the Flight Control Center for 47 seconds. This unglamorous mishap, equivalent to blowing a household fuse, stopped communication with the capsule, and might have been serious if astronauts had been aboard...
...often two caulobacters put the ends of their stalks together and cling for a long time while spherical grains in their stalk tips gradually fuse together...
...freedom school met near the ruins of the ournt out church, and, during breaks, the children played with objects found in the rubble. It sometimes possible to read a page or two of charred book, and the hands of the church clock were still identifiable. One girl found a fuse that had melted out of shape (above right). The framework of the piano could be seen between strips of what had been roof (below, left). The younger children would wander off to play...
...house in Maracaibo, also provides free medical care, while advertising contracts with Gerber and Klim give meat and milk. The big problem is telling them apart, though their mother insists that this is no problem at all. "Otto is the lovingest," she says. "Juan José has the shortest fuse. Robinson's the fattest, Mario's the tallest and Fernando is the most easygoing...