Word: fusing
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...against the Prince, explained some fun-loving students from the Royal University of Malta. They were just miffed because they'd been left out of the royal social schedule. To mollify them, Charles dropped in on a student dance at their club in Valletta. Someone pulled the main fuse, all the lights went out and the Prince's security agents burst into the hall in a panic. No need to worry. The lights went back on to show a grinning Charles being carried about on the shoulders of his cheering hosts...
Half of the 2,000,000 Mexicans in Southern California no longer call themselves Mexican Americans. They use the tougher name Chicanos, and they are renaming their political organization, United Mexican-American Students, MECHA?which means fuse. They are getting...
...playfulness of his character also mixed with his love of words. Once, when someone was fixing a fuse on the water kettle and remarked that the wires were worn, Donovan chimed in, "And when the screwdriver got there, the wires were all bare." At another time, one of the girls was putting blue sparkles on her eyelids. I asked how they stayed on. "Magnetism," said one fellow. "The eyes have it," added Donovan...
...girl who had four dates in one day. You don't play the piano, you don't have new boots, you don't get. As on your papers, you don't have four dates in a day. But you are a Cliffie and you have synthetic mind and you fuse all these friends into one Other who does better and has more. It's a rat race, but the rats are on a treadmill and the cheese is imaginary...
...Thomas Mann described this period of apparent artistic desperation and extravagance as the miserable satyr play of a smaller time. This business of post-romantic it self is a continuously evolving, because imperishable, force in music. The post-romantic period was a continuation of the nineteenth-century attempts to fuse literature and music in the creation of a more ardent poeticism and evocative drama. The popular portrayal of this period also habitually refers to it as the death-knell of the symphony; in which traditional forms were dealt a stunning blow and collapsed from sheer exhaustion after the breathless...