Word: fused
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, in the midst of the controversy, came news that Governor Gore's summer home, 50 mi. from San Juan, had been bombed shortly after he had left it. Next day another bomb, its fuse defective, was found in the garden of the Governor's mansion at San Juan. The Governor immediately ordered floodlights thrown around the mansion, asked Puerto Rican police to confiscate all guns and ammunitions stored at the University R. O. T. C. headquarters...
...Calumet, Mich., world-weary John Korr, 55, put a stick of dynamite in his trousers pocket, lit the fuse, walked into a room where his landlady Mary Chopp and her daughter were sitting. They fled. John Korr ran after them, chased them until the dynamite exploded, blew him to bits...
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...begging." In Alaska and northern Canada he met many an eccentric adventurer. Dawson Tom was a cardsharp whose favorite dodge for getting free drinks was to produce what looked like a stick of dynamite in a crowded saloon, shout: "Closing time! The pub is going up!" and light the fuse. When the novelty of this trick wore off he substituted a rocket for the nonexplosive "dynamite." Finlander Kid was 103, with hair "over four yards long"; his sledges were pulled by four brown bears to whom he told all his troubles...
...various special alloys he employed. There was no welding. To cast a girl with a golden arm and a silver dress, for example, the arm would be cast first. When cool the hot silver alloy would be sucked into the same mold. Heat of the silver would fuse the arm to the body...