Word: fusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crest, hurling grenades into foxholes and trenches. Japs popped up to fire at him; Craft pitched a hand grenade first. Japs tried to charge him with bayonets and spears. Craft shot them with his M-t rifle. He hurled a satchel charge into a cave. lt had a defective fuse and failed to explode. Craft walked up, retrieved the charge, fixed the fuse and hurled it in again. That time it sealed the cave...
...crudely alienated its 4,000,000 sensitive Syrian and Lebanese subjects as when the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc slid into Beirut harbor last month to land a thousand Senegalese soldiers. Instantly Syrians and Lebanese saw a threat to the independence they had long been clamoring for. The fuse sputtered...
Swooping down on a bridge at Dillingen, east of Ulm, the U.S. Seventh Army's 12th Armored Division ripped the fuse out of a 5,000-lb. demolition charge under the bridge, crossed the Danube River and pressed on toward Augsburg. On the road beyond Nurnberg. other units of the Seventh were more than halfway to Regensburg...
Dropped in loose clusters of 14, or "amiable" clusters of 38, the finless oil-bombs are exploded by a time fuse four or five seconds after landing. Thereupon M-69s become miniature flamethrowers* that hurl cheesecloth socks full of furiously flaming goo for 100 yards. Anything these socks hit is enveloped by clinging, fiery pancakes, each spreading to more than a yard in diameter. Individually, these can be extinguished as easily as a magnesium bomb. But a single oil-bomb cluster produces so many fiery pancakes that the problem for fire fighters, like that of a mother whose child...
Nearly everybody hoped that the Yalta Conference had cut the fuse from that charge of political high explosive, the Free Germany Committee. But last week it was fizzing and sputtering again-this time in the Soviet press. Cried Moscow's War & the Working Class: the report that Russia intended to use the Free Germany Committee to create a pro-Russian German state was a "myth" based on "poisoned rumors." "From nothing has been erected a structure of lies. . . . The Soviet Union, much more than any other country . . . is anxious to obtain a solution . . . making . . . a revival of German aggression...