Word: fuse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colony's new British-appointed Governor, replaced Sir Ralph Grey, who is moving on to the Bahamas. To prevent riots, the swearing-in ceremony took place on a Georgetown wharf only a few feet from the Canadian ship that brought Sir Richard from Trinidad. Once again, the fuse was lit in British Guiana, and holding the match-as usual-was Marxist Premier Cheddi Jagan...
...make their new thrust even more powerful, the family's two main branches-in Paris and London-are starting to fuse again in a series of ventures, after a separation of more than half a century. Together they have created firms to put up buildings on the Continent, to make industrial loans in the U.S. and to tap the mineral wealth of an area in Canada bigger than England and Wales combined. The two also recently formed a joint company-appropriately called Second Continuation Ltd.-to give the French house a stake in the British bank and enable them...
...very inconclusiveness of the civil rights issue that left politicians warily watching it, like a fuse that might-say, next year-blow any or all of them to eternity...
...Mexico (TIME, Nov. 1), a film company is making Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana. The screenplay is somewhat adulterated, since it was pecked into existence by someone else. But the off-screen play, unnervingly, is something straight out of Tennessee Williams. The shadow and the substance fuse...
...Germany, teams of Catholic and Protestant scholars are at work on brand-new translations of Scripture; eventually, they hope to gain ecclesiastical permission to fuse their two versions into one joint translation. Scholarly Catholic missionaries are collaborating with Protestant ministers in translating the Bible into Singhalese, Indonesian, Swahili, Zulu and Japanese. In Wales the Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff has agreed to cooperate with the Protestant and Anglican churches in sponsoring a new translation into Welsh. Many French Protestant churches use the excellent "Jerusalem Bible," translated by Dominican Fathers Roland de Vaux, Pierre Benoit and other Catholic scholars of Jordan...