Word: fusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jury that judged them spent seven hours and 42 minutes deliberating the sordid record of how the A-bomb-and such other secrets as the proximity fuse-were handed over to the Kremlin. To help them decide, the jurors had the testimony of sallow, penitent Harry Gold, a Philadelphia biochemist now serving 30 years because he was a courier for the atomic spy ring, and David Greenglass, a former Los Alamos technician who testified not only to his own but also to his sister's and his wife's parts in the espionage operations...
Greenglass testified that Defendant Julius Rosenberg did not confine his interest to the atomic bomb. Julius, he said, personally stole the secret proximity fuse when he was working for the Emerson Radio Corp. "He took it out in the briefcase he brought his lunch in and gave it to the Russians," Greenglass explained...
...surprise that he really has a voice. The ring and power of his high notes almost makes up for his lack of real musical taste. Called back by cheer after cheer, Mario gave them as an encore his current bestselling tune, Be My Love. That really blew a fuse; at any rate, the lights went out. The police provided an extra squad to get Mario out of the Mosque and back to his hotel. As he was leaving, a young woman bumped him and promptly fainted. Mario caught her and handed...
...second category, research and development, is more spectacular. During World War II the bureau produced the only successful guided missile ("the bat"), and the uncanny proximity fuse. Recently it has gone into electronic computers, turning out two for the Air Force that are probably the fastest in operation. In any future war, the bureau will be the laboratory behind the laboratories that design the fighting machines...
Congratulations to TIME, Feb. 5 for alerting our State Department with its timely "Iran and Oil." This area is a veritable powder keg, the fuse of which has already been lighted...