Word: fuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...green high school building, look back, the signs seem all too clear. For his middle school yearbook, Kinkel was jokingly voted "most likely to start World War III." "He was really open about making bombs," confides T.J. Harty, 13. "Once he showed me a pipe bomb with a white fuse and said, 'I'm going to blow something up.'" Kip would brag about cutting up cats and squirrels and even claimed to have blown up a cow. Like many local teenagers, he hunted deer, with a rifle his father gave him last year. He seemed to take pleasure in killing...
Lennon has yet to find a way to fuse all this into his own style, but he's got time. For now, he's managed to generate real interest in his music, not just his legacy. A decade ago, that was a feat no one could imagine...
Hugh McColl is what southerners call "a firecracker of a man." He is a tiny stick of dynamite: 5 ft. 6 3/4 in. tall, with a big mouth and a short fuse. Once, deep into a negotiation to grab a billion-dollar bank, he waited for words until an idea materialized somewhere out of that Marine Corps (1957-59) mind, and he unloaded over the phone at the poor gentleman on the other end: "My board is meeting, and we've gone too far. I've got to launch my missiles!" (The not-so-gentlemanly reply, reported later...
...William Allen White said that Roosevelt "thought with his hips"--an apercu that might better be applied to Ronald Reagan, whose intelligence was intuitive, and even to Franklin Roosevelt, who never approached "Cousin Theodore" in smarts. White probably meant that T.R.'s mental processor moved so fast as to fuse thought and action...
This time, more U.S. weapons have a "fire-and-forget" capability that uses Global Positioning System satellites to guide them to their targets. That lets U.S. pilots head for home as soon as they release their payloads. A more sensitive fuse on some weapons--using an accelerometer that measures the weapon's speed--actually "counts" floors and explodes only after it has reached the pre-selected level...