Word: fuse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Easy," and "Nightingale." Essentially the same song, they stand apart from the other, more derivative songs. And yet, because they're both by Jackson Browne, the implications are clear Eagles have no direction. They've drawn what they needed from what went before, and are seemingly unable to fuse for themselves a sound...
...other forms of letter bombs, the act of opening the envelope or removing the "letter" ignites a fuse or scratches a percussion cap that ignites the explosive. Still others explode as soon as the contents are exposed to air. The most deadly thing about any of them, however, is their innocence. All of those spotted last week were individually and specifically addressed. Handwriting is customarily used in such cases instead of printing or typing, in order to allay any suspicions the victim might have. Often the letter bears the home address and forged handwriting of someone the recipient knows...
...supplies. The same type of bomb, with its fins retracted to effect a sharper landing, is dropped on road junctions. With its retracted fins, it sinks deep into the earth. In addition to the magnetic versions of the Mark 36, there is a nonmagnetic type equipped with a time fuse...
...Andersonstown and Ballymurphy districts and rounded up hundreds of men for questioning. Giant bulldozers ripped through the iron-pylon barricades that had marked many Catholic enclaves. In Belfast's narrow Keenan Street, the soldiers discovered a complete bomb factory, 420 lbs. of gelignite, sodium nitrate, detonators and fuse wire...
...gasworks where the real horrors breed, among the machines and crackpot politics and bills of lading, the irony and the ironmonger. Nobody but Ambler is quite so willing to risk boring us with the crucial facts-why the Russian rocket needs a special mounting flange to take a Chinese fuse, why it isn't all that simple to plot a new course for a merchant vessel sailing from Latakia to Alexandria, why the Agence Howell (shipping, light manufacturing, fast footwork) needs to get its capital out of Syria before the next revolution...