Word: fuselis
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...surprise that he really has a voice. The ring and power of his high notes almost makes up for his lack of real musical taste. Called back by cheer after cheer, Mario gave them as an encore his current bestselling tune, Be My Love. That really blew a fuse; at any rate, the lights went out. The police provided an extra squad to get Mario out of the Mosque and back to his hotel. As he was leaving, a young woman bumped him and promptly fainted. Mario caught her and handed...
...second category, research and development, is more spectacular. During World War II the bureau produced the only successful guided missile ("the bat"), and the uncanny proximity fuse. Recently it has gone into electronic computers, turning out two for the Air Force that are probably the fastest in operation. In any future war, the bureau will be the laboratory behind the laboratories that design the fighting machines...
Congratulations to TIME, Feb. 5 for alerting our State Department with its timely "Iran and Oil." This area is a veritable powder keg, the fuse of which has already been lighted...
...afternoon last week, after the landscapers and renovators had gone for the day, a dark sedan pulled up at the Julians' house. Two men got out, broke into the house and poured gasoline through all its rooms. They laid a clumsy fuse of surgical gauze to the outside and lit it; it went out. Then they tossed a flaming kerosene torch through a window and drove away. Before the gasoline was ignited, neighbors called firemen and the house was saved...
...insists on being bosom friends with an audience that barely vouchsafes it a nod. Playwright-Director-Actor-Master of Ceremonies Crabtree takes potshots at latecomers while offering pointers on the play; the stage manager struggles with the prompt book while actors add inserts to injury; the lights blow a fuse; an actress throws...