Word: fuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cambridge from Oregon, where he worked as a logging blaster last summer. They said he had kept it in a chest in his room. Two weeks ago, the sources disclosed. Cross woke up Winthrop House sloepers by blowing up six sticks of his stock with a four-minute fuse and caps...
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...took one heliuva good football game to set the fuse. Then the firecracker burst brilliantly, violently, and briefly. Between halves, the near-nude Indian cheerleaders led their partisans out of the stands to set up a tepoe. A few of the locals offered half-hearted opposition, which resulted in a disruption of the band formations and little else...
...George Medal for "courage and devotion to duty of the highest order." Admonishing reporters not to "make a song and dance about it," Watts reluctantly gave a few pointers on method: "I started knowing that such a small object, to be explosive, had to have an acid-operated fuse or an electric current. Gentle prodding told me which. These letter bombs were all of the electric-fuse type. All I had to do was to find the wires between battery and fuse, snip them and breathe easily. The rest was just routine...
...Pearl Harbor 6½ years ago, the provocation was simple, swift and beyond recall: Japanese bombs hit U.S. battleships in a matter of seconds. In Berlin last week provocation had a longer fuse. By blocking the normal food supply of some 2,500,000 people in Berlin's western zones (see col. 2), the Russians were betting that they could force the Western Allies out in a matter of days or weeks...