Word: fuses
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...aloof from this excitement. "It's too early," he warned his friends. During the afternoon he stood by impassively as the crowd, still orderly and unled, came finally to Parliament House. It was Communist Party Boss Erno Gero, just returned from a visit to Tito, who touched off the fuse. In a radio speech, Gero accused the people of "provocations." Surging toward Radio Budapest, the crowd demanded the right to be heard. The AVH guards began shooting...
...that govern the internal affairs of atoms force them to revolve at only 1/210th of the distance of electrons. The "mesic" atom formed in this way is somewhat heavier than an ordinary hydrogen atom but extremely small. It can therefore sift through the electron defenses of ordinary atoms and fuse with their nuclei...
Returns trickling in from the Western and Mountain states put the G.O.P. in the lead from the outset in Arizona, Colorado and Utah, New Mexico gave Ike a heavy lead. Even atom-conscious Los Alamos, one place where Stevenson's H-bomb issue might logically have set a fuse, went for Eisenhower...
...process took time and it was well for the bogged-down U.S. that Ike was working out his own political philosophy and amassing some more civilian and diplomatic qualifications. From his job as president of Columbia University (1948-50) President Truman recalled him to command and to fuse the forces of NATO, the heart of U.S. and Western European foreign policy. There Ike began to hear the mounting summons of Republicans and independents ("What a mess our blessed nation is in," the dying Senator Vandenberg had cried, adding hopefully, "Thank God for Eisenhower") urging him to come home...
This is the more costly in that Too Late the Phalarope has to fuse a variety of themes and a welter of relationships, while the story's very background is imperious. The play involves the division between the Afrikaners and the English as well as between whites and blacks. Its young policeman hero (Barry Sullivan) -who, by sinning with a native girl, tragically violates both the law and a relentless social code-stands in as fissuring a relationship to his bigoted Puritan father (Finlay Currie) as to his narrow, unresponsive wife. There are half a dozen sources of voltage...