Word: fused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...amusing moment, the distinguished writer described how to use a condom as a fuse for a bomb, a technique actually used by South African revolutionaries...
...clearly was at the end of her fuse and wasn't in the mood for any annoying Crimson reporters making open-ended statements...
...Alien's ship. The Even More Incredible Machine, from Sierra On-Line, confronts users with more than 150 challenges to their ingenuity, ranging from launching a toy rocket to shooting a basketball through a hoop. To send up a rocket, a child must find a way to light the fuse. One possibility: using a magnifying glass to focus light rays. Budding authors can use Storybook Weaver, from Minnesota Educational Computing Corp., to create adventure tales. After clicking their cursor on a haunted house or other exotic setting, children fill it with colorful characters and write a story based...
...every headline event of the past 40 years, is the summer sensation: a popular hit and an instant cultural touchstone. As the film's director, Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), says, Gump has "no typical storytelling devices: no villain, no ticking clock, no burning fuse." Yet it has exploded at the North American box office. In its second week of release, when ticket sales for even the most robust hits drop perhaps 20%, Gump held even. This past weekend it reached the $100 million mark; an industry savant predicts, quite conservatively, that it will finally...
...noting, though, that even if such genes are found, this may not settle the debate about ADHD. After all, it is just as likely that researchers will someday discover a gene for a hot temper, which also runs in families. But that doesn't mean that having a short fuse is a disease requiring medical intervention...