Word: fusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath this calm surface, the Democratic situation of 1956 has the ingredients for as much hollering and noise as the party has ever heard before. There is the basic split between moderates and radicals on economic and social policy. The fuse burns short on the civil-rights issue. And personal bitterness grows between,, the two leading candidates for the nomination: Adlai Ewing Stevenson of Illinois and William Averell Harriman of New York. The key question as the convention approaches: Will the quiet be broken...
...more than a week the invitation, amply anticipated, had sputtered like a bomb fuse in Washington's top drawers. Last week the President weighed the obvious pluses and minuses and gave the answer: Airman Twining could go. Ike made it plain that the U.S. has no intention of reciprocating with an invitation to Bulganin and Khrushchev, no intention of lowering its guard. With these essential provisos, the President thought it both safe and desirable to send an observer of Nate Twining's caliber to Moscow to cock a practiced eye at the Red jets and, perhaps, to probe...
Supercharger. In Lancaster, Ohio, Robert Lewis, 27, lost the keys to his car, fetched a length of wire from the garage to get his engine started, learned while recovering from burns in the Lancaster Hospital that he had picked out a fuse wire with a dynamite...
During the next six days, Boulat took 2,000 pictures, rushing about Moscow as though he were "shooting a series of rooms whose doors were just about to swing shut." When he came to photograph interiors of the Kremlin, the spirit of Geneva blew a fuse: he got a flat refusal on the excuse that he had insufficient equipment -even though he had six cameras, electronic flashguns and enough lighting gear to illuminate the Kremlin's largest chambers. But the pictures he came back with added up to an exclusive color portfolio for this week's report...
Summing up his electromagnetic theory, Menzel said that "the solar system resulted when the sun 'blew a fuse.'" If there are many other planets in the universe, he concluded, "Life, even human or superhuman life, may exist in millions of places in the universe...