Word: fuses
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...very inconclusiveness of the civil rights issue that left politicians warily watching it, like a fuse that might-say, next year-blow any or all of them to eternity...
...Mexico (TIME, Nov. 1), a film company is making Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana. The screenplay is somewhat adulterated, since it was pecked into existence by someone else. But the off-screen play, unnervingly, is something straight out of Tennessee Williams. The shadow and the substance fuse...
...Germany, teams of Catholic and Protestant scholars are at work on brand-new translations of Scripture; eventually, they hope to gain ecclesiastical permission to fuse their two versions into one joint translation. Scholarly Catholic missionaries are collaborating with Protestant ministers in translating the Bible into Singhalese, Indonesian, Swahili, Zulu and Japanese. In Wales the Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff has agreed to cooperate with the Protestant and Anglican churches in sponsoring a new translation into Welsh. Many French Protestant churches use the excellent "Jerusalem Bible," translated by Dominican Fathers Roland de Vaux, Pierre Benoit and other Catholic scholars of Jordan...
...right-wing reason for opposing it. He called the contract an effort "to disguise Brazil's progressive entry into the Soviet orbit." Goulart's resolve melted under all the political heat; he ordered still an other detailed appraisal of Amforp's as sets "screw by screw, fuse by fuse." With the original deal scratched, Amforp is left with the thankless task of operating utilities that drain more money and make more enemies every...
...Scientist magazine, are accomplished by concentrating a powerful flash of laser light on a tiny area by means of a lens. It is a nice trick in a laboratory, but warheads plunging down from space hardly can be expected to carry lenses to expedite their own destruction. To fuse a steel casing weighing 100 Ibs. would require a laser light strong enough to deliver 807 kilowatts of energy to it for a full minute. If the beam were to hit the warhead 30 miles above the earth, it would be spread out so much that only 0.5% of its energy...