Word: fusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic weapon for air combat, thinks McNarney, will be the "air-to-air" rocket. It will not have to be aimed very accurately, for it will "home" on its target (probably attracted by radar-wave reflections), chase after it at supersonic speed, and explode by a proximity fuse when it gets within killing range. Such rockets presumably will be used by bombers for defense as well as by fighters for attack. Their development into "operational missiles," says McNarney, will not take long...
...This week Elihu H. Bailey, mayor of Evarts, announced that he had found 24 sticks of dynamite beneath his bedroom window; attached was a fuse which had burned out a few inches short of a percussion...
...Work. He kicked in the glass in the comptroller's office door, methodically laid out his tools: an 8-lb. sledge hammer with a loin. handle, two drift-pins, two chisels, 100 fuse-type blasting caps and four electric blasting caps with wires. He tapped the battery in the breast pocket of his leather jacket and hoped he wouldn't have to use it, because a well-grounded safe man hates to blast; it is a matter of professional pride...
...they hoped, the big bang never came. In an operation as delicate as brain surgery, London's No. 2 Bomb Disposal Squad successfully took the the surface. The 2,775-lb. bomb was second largest ever dug up in London. Seven years ago during a bad raid its fuse had jammed as it tore through Mrs. Alfred Fry's kitchen, then buried itself 30 feet in the Stepney ground. At that time air-raid wardens laid the damage to an antiaircraft shell. Recently Mrs. Fry noticed that the ground around her repaired kitchen had been sinking. That gave...
Unquestionably the council could take credit for snuffing the fuse to an explosive situation-though next day a new fuse sputtered briefly. On Christmas night a band of machine-gunning raiders slashed into tiny Puerto Soley, on Costa Rica's Pacific shore, shot up the town, set it afire, then scuttled back to Nicaragua...