Word: fuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike was orderly and well-mannered. The greatest hardship wrought was that on screen star Mary Martin. Stopping at the Savoy with her husband, pert Mary had to cook their dinner (canned chicken and coffee) on an electric plate. Said she: "We only blew out one tiny little fuse...
...take full effect on August 20, their effectiveness will be measured not by their phraseology, not even by their three-man administration, but only by the willingness of the buying public to back up a bill that was designed for its protection. With or without government price control, the fuse on inflation is sputtering behind the customer's back, ready to lead up to a boom which will very literally leave the public "bust" unless it turns around and takes preventive action...
...Atom. The five rings got: samples of uranium, information on radar, the Asdic detector and the VT-proximity fuse. But the Russians did not get what they wanted most: the know-how of the atomic bomb. The reason was simple. Said the report: "There was no one in Canada who had that information...
...followers shouted a new slogan: 'Hamara atom bomb Qaid-i-Azam"-The Great Leader is our atom bomb. But the fuse was a little slow; the bomb had not gone off, and it looked at last as if India might achieve independence without civil...
Last week, an unobserved concussion jarred Annie's dormant time fuse into action. No. 2 Bomb-Disposal Company, which had started to dig it out, declared that, unless the bomb blew itself up, it would have to be detonated. With a mental groan, Londoners kept thinking of that thing ticking away over in St. James's Park. Like all veterans, they were glad that the war was over, and yet the ticking of the bomb carried an echo of past excitement into the grouchy drabness of peace...