Word: fuse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brought down in Russia checked out, the experts agreed. They reached the conclusion that his structurally frail U-2 photo-reconnaissance plane probably had not actually been hit but was downed by a near miss -the "orange flash" Powers reported seeing -probably from a rocket with a proximity fuse. The investigators believe that Powers' U-2 flight was the first in four years to pass directly over a Soviet rocket battery -and that it did not take a very sophisticated Russian effort to bring him down (even a first-generation U.S. antiaircraft missile, the Nike-Ajax, could...
...plastic bomb, developed during World War II, has become the trademark of the S.A.O. It is a puttylike substance made by mixing two explosives, Hexogen (known as R.D.X. in the U.S.) and TNT, into a rubber compound base, and can be exploded either electrically or by fuse. Terrorists prefer the plastic bomb for two reasons: it is so stable that it can be cut into strips and easily transported; at the site marked for the blast, it is adhesive enough to stick to almost any surface ? under a window ledge, on a mailbox, or around a fence or lamppost...
Converted Aristocrat. The division between masters and servants has grown so explosive that Peruvians from all factions are anxiously working to snip the fuse.* The most effective reformer so far has been Beltran, who holds power through a truce between the moderate right and anti-Communist left...
Abruptly, just as he was about to catch a train, Charles de Gaulle last week gave up his legal authority to be near dictator of France. A few hours before leaving for his first whistle-stop tour since a terrorist's bomb came within a damp fuse of killing him, De Gaulle issued a brief communiqué. As of Oct. 1, he announced, he would relinquish the extraordinary powers he had assumed* to quell the Algerian army revolt in April...
...killed up to 30% of its victims and left others crippled by nerve damage resembling Parkinson's, most patients seemed to make a full recovery. And physicians suspect that, as in all such epidemics, there were many undetected cases. In these, Drs. Poskanzer and Schwab believe, de-layed-fuse damage to the nerve cells in the subthalamic region caused Parkinson's disease up to 40 or more years later...