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...weapon employed by the Patrol to hasten the end of an iceberg's life. If the berg has a ledge upon which a man may land, a hole is chopped with an ice axe and the charge with a time-fuse attached, is deposited
...from the windows of Avery Mission Methodist Episcopal church in the north side of Pittsburgh last week clattered sounds of shouting, crying, handclapping. A joint commission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church had recommended that the two churches fuse their organizations and their properties and call the combination the United Methodist Episcopal Church. They would be united "under a name that will be universal in meaning and not confine us to any race or country." Members of both denominations were glad. Efforts of 30 years were coming to fruition...
...Individuals through whom a type Is suggested, but rather flat and insignificant figures glimpsed through the blurring lens of gen- erality. A man of little skill with words, he gets his effects with pa- tience and a hammer. To his famed Sorrel and Son he attached a long-burning fuse and its sale now exceeds 100,000. This latest book is interesting if only because it too may contain that element, for critics still undefined, which gives a book enormous popular appeal...
...realm of Little Tsar Boris III assassins still throw bombs with long sputtering fuses in the good old way. The bombee, if an experienced official, has at least a sporting chance of snuffing out the fuse before explosion happens. Therefore, last week, when a bomb hurtled past Chief of the Secret Police Ikonomoff as he was entering his house at Sofia and rolled ahead of him down the dark hall, the worst was not necessarily to be feared. . . . Experienced, adept, Chief Ikonomoff did not flee out into the street, but sought to protect his household by darting forward to extinguish...
...tried to get him out. Shooter Johnson returned their fire. Citizens talked of sending to the governor for a detachment of militia, agreed first to make one more effort. Enlisting 75 more courageous deputies, they stormed toward Mr. Johnson's death-spitting windows. Someone touched off an electric fuse-there was a splintering boom. Dynamite, laid in the night, had blown off Farmer Johnson's door. The first deputy inside fired shakily at the insane, grey figure crouching in an angle of the stairs. With a hole in his head, Mr. Johnson pitched forward. Taken to a hospital...