Word: fuse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maybe it's because they're better. I don't know. They hold up remarkably well. We've been singing them six hours a night, and they're still good. So many things are perfect now that took hours. And now we suffer from diddly-shit things like a fuse overloading. It's frustrating, like a yellow light on a blue diamond. We've got to get it perfect. I love the show now more than when I started it--and I loved it when I started...
...close as Dorchester, where Keystone Manufacturing makes bomb fuse parts for Indochina. Many of the women who work there are black. Most don't know what they are making...
...Balkans are still the powder keg of Europe, Macedonia may well be the fuse. The issue that could provide the spark is a century-old controversy over whether the Macedonians are a distinct strain of southern Slavs entitled to an autonomous republic within Yugoslavia, or whether they are Bulgars and should be part of Bulgaria. Bulgaria pressed its claim that the Macedonians are really Bulgars until last year, when Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev visited Sofia. After that, the Bulgarians suddenly softened their propaganda attacks against Yugoslavia over the issue...
...known as the caper story, wherein a skilled handful of professionals try to steal a certain invaluable object from a certain impregnable fortress. The trouble with such yarns is that they tend to be about mechanics, not people. Unable to believe in the characters, who could care that the fuse won't light or the tumblers won't fall...
...provocation -a word that the British and Ulster Protestants thought might be better applied to the scheduled demonstration. Appeals to call off the march came from the Prime Ministers of Britain and Ulster and the Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland, William Cardinal Conway, but all went unheeded. The fuse was lit, and the fire was ready...