Word: fuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only the Yard's early strollers who could shout "Let it burn," since this second visit of the year by the local fire brigade came well before 9 o'clock. A short circuit in a fuse box had caused only a small blaze, but the smoke, which was heavy enough to fill the basement, prompted a janitor to call out the fire fighters...
...last trip Old Buck was the center of the boldest raid Britain has yet made on the Nazi-held coast of Europe. When a delayed-action fuse finally blasted the five tons of high explosive in her bow and sent her violently to the bottom of St.-Nazaire harbor, she had seen action enough in one night for several nautical lifetimes. There were the demoniacal Commandos ashore, blowing up pumping stations, bridges, buildings. There were the snarling little gunboats wildly blasting away at Nazi pillboxes. There were the frenzied Nazis firing at friend & foe alike. And there were the bombers...
...Oeuvre, who with Laval was wounded last summer by Nazi-hating young Paul Colette (TIME, Sept. 8). Last week Editor Déat lectured at Tours. Someone threw a sputtering missile at him. After it had bounced off his coat, he snuffed out its fuse. German newspapers said it was a bomb, French that it was only a pétard (firecracker), not powerful enough to hoist hefty Editor...
...members of a 5-inch gun's crew fell before a strafing attack. The lone remaining bluejacket took over: three times he grabbed a shell from the fuse pot, placed it in the tray, dashed to the other side of the gun, rammed it home, jumped into the pointer's seat and fired. A terrific bomb blast finally carried him over the side. He was rescued...
They also blew up 2,000 bridges in the path of the advancing Blues. The blowing up was theoretical but accurate: umpires with formulas in their pockets inspected every foot of fuse, every block of TNT, allowed no bridge to be closed off to the Blues unless enough simulated TNT was planted, in just the right spots, to tear it down...