Word: fuselis
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Patna's police also spent one night cordoning off an area below a mysterious, wavering filament in the sky that they identified as a "rocket fuse." At dawn, they discovered someone had tied his paper kite to a pole, and the "fuse" was merely its fluttering string...
...President, this was "a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory won on any battlefield. Today the Negro story and the American story fuse and blend...
...portable fuse jammer, details of which are still classified, offers protection by sending out electronic signals that cause artillery shells containing proximity fuses to explode prematurely...
Then there was David Borden's aria for soprano and orchestra on Dylan Thomas's Force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Drives my green age. There was no clear relationship between the music and the words. The poem invokes a myriad of very different images: plant metabolism, evaporation, the action of tide and wind, and time, the dripping of blood and the hanging of a man. The music pounded along its atonal course without proper variation in color for the different verses. Borden did demonstrate his sensitivity to the poem, once, with his treatment of the reiterated...
...survive the critical strains of launching and reentry. The only trouble came five minutes and 15 seconds after launch, when an electrical overload opened a circuit breaker and cut off all power in the Flight Control Center for 47 seconds. This unglamorous mishap, equivalent to blowing a household fuse, stopped communication with the capsule, and might have been serious if astronauts had been aboard...