Word: fuse
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...sustaining so charged an atmosphere seriously complicates the form of a piece. Two important meloes, both rich in very tasteful nostalgia, suddenly become boisterous and frenzied, and these transformations fuse effective relations to the themes. Moreover, the raucous passages are too often static, and end up seeming like mere busy work. The performance, however, somewhat remedied this defect by giving one melody a meater internal variety...
...vocal ensemble does the underlying, steeled precision rise to the surface. She tapers and snubs the end of each phrase, each musical sentence. When one of the inner voices in the small vocal ensemble enters, she clears the air for it as if doing the breast-stroke. Like a fuse, she acts immediately in the moment of need; otherwise the music goes by itself--meaning, of course, that she is devilishly demanding at rehearsals...
...political landscape overnight, and permanently entrench the Democratic Party. It was far from that. Without setting forth any guidelines for action, it simply gave federal courts the right to hear cases involving state political apportionment. As such, it was less a bombshell than a slow-burning time fuse...
...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...