Word: fusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Then passengers heard a muffled pop-pop. Using his special low-power pistol, the Israeli agent had shot the Arab gunman, but the steward was critically wounded in the stomach. The 142 passengers and crew members may well have been saved from death or serious injury by a malfunctioning fuse on a grenade, which was found as the plane was making an emergency landing in London. For unknown reasons, it had failed to explode. Leila, unsuccessful in her attempt to blow up the plane and herself, was placed under British detention...
...Stewardess Augusta Schneider for some matches. Handing him a pack, she cautioned as a good stewardess should: "You can't smoke now. We are about to land." The guerrilla had no intention of smoking. Instead, while the giant Clipper was still 100 feet off the ground, he lit the fuse to his explosives. As the fuse began to burn, the hijackers told the passengers: "You have eight minutes." But Captain Priddy, captive in his cockpit, knew none of this. Landing in early-morning blackness at an unfamiliar airport, he might have elected to abort the approach and go around...
French industry is beginning to agree In a recent test for an electronics manufacturer, the furnace fused several tons of bauxite and ceramics to produce high-voltage insulators of unmatched purity The oven could easily fuse other highly heat-resistant materials: quartz crystals for radio transmitters, corundum for industrial grinding stones and zircon parts for nuclear reactors. It could also be used in experiments to develop new space-age alloys, such as special tungsten or cobalt steels, and even materials to withstand the searing heat of a nuclear blast...
...catchy singer-as big-band leaders go, that is. But what really enabled Woody Herman to climb to the top 30 years ago and stay there was two quite different talents: a high sense of musical style and a genius for leadership. He had a rare ability to fuse a collection of raw young musicians into a polished and pulsating band. He could also yield to the prevailing pop taste without losing a certain acerbic jazzy quality all his own. Today Woody is as much the debonair man of the times as ever. As he puts...
Since coming north, the varsity nine has won only 5 of 11 games, dropping four one-run decisions. The team's major failing has been its inability to fuse strong pitching and hitting performances...