Word: fusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telephones rang incessantly; Cleveland television station WEWS had never had so many complaints in a single day. When the umpteenth belligerent caller demanded, "How long are you going to keep the U.N. session on the air?", General Manager James C. Hanrahan finally blew a fuse. "How long will the marines stay in Lebanon?" he shouted, and banged the receiver down in disgust...
Crouton. In Philippe ville, Algeria, when a terrorist threw a bomb into a restaurant where 40 French soldiers were eating, it landed in one soldier's soup, where its fuse was extinguished...
...student flashes the familiar gray card impatiently, as he passes the cash register. The delicate odors of apple pie a la mode, blended with hamburgers and some unknown form of potato, fuse together . . . . Monday, deep-dish apple-pie; Tuesday, apple-pie squares; Wednesday, apple-pie a la mode; Thursday...
...corruption, grandiose projects and politics for politics' sake, Puerto Rico buckled to work and remodeled itself. In the mood of reappraisal after the stones and spit that flew at Vice President Richard Nixon in South America, the island offers a laboratory where U.S. and Latin cultures and economies fuse with useful, imaginative lessons. For the dramatic methods that Poet-Governor Luis Muñoz Marin used in changing Puerto Rico from an "unsolvable problem" to a prosperous, burgeoning tropical workshop, see HEMISPHERE, The Bard of Bootstrap...
...community center; some 15 minutes after the call, a nearly identical bomb smashed windows at the all-Negro James Weldon Johnson High School. Next day brought word from Birmingham, Ala., 370 miles to the northwest, that a mighty 54-stick bomb had been found attached to a damped-out fuse in the window well of a downtown synagogue. These three brought to 45 the South's bomb count since January 1957. Most of the attacks have been against Negroes, but. for the first time since a short-lived 1951 outbreak in Miami, the South's spare Jewish population...