Word: fusing
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...Lady's Not for Burning is the child of poetry and prankishness-both parents springing from ancient British stock. It recaptures something of what Aldous Huxley said Elizabethan poetry had and later poetry lost: an ability to fuse comedy with lyricism...
...fuse for the big weekend firecracker will be lit immediately after this afternoon's game, with a mass meeting of all Dartmouth, men in Harvard Square. The giant really, details of which were not announced until late last night, will be led by a WDES sound truck. Coulter urged that all attend the really, stating that "it will be full of surprises...
...himself a reputation for homespun, amiable integrity, helped solve many a minor strike, some major ones. Both management & labor trusted him. Forty-six years ago, working as an equipment supervisor on Boston's Elevated Railway Co., he once almost electrocuted himself repairing an overhead wire, blowing out every fuse in the system. He came to a week later, badly burned and partially blind, lay in bed for 15 weeks. Nobody from the company ever came to see him; accident compensation didn't exist. Ching thought about that. He took a law degree, went back...
...Administration was trying to wear two faces without looking like Janus: a militant, chin-out attitude towards Korea; an unruffled, unmilitant countenance for the rest of the world to see. Harry Truman indicated he would not be stampeded into ringing all the alarm bells to put out a fuse-box fire...
Coming from anyone else, such a prophecy might well have made the institute's hardheaded members blow a fuse in surprise. But as president of the $250 million Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., bustling, ruddy-faced Elmer Lindseth, 48, has made a habit of winning big bets on an expanding economy...