Word: fusing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...
...high old time, knocking over sundry articles and tearing open a pillow case. When Lessen returned, around 10 p.m. Sunday, the melange had messed things up considerably and, to add to Lessen's troubles, the culprits who broke into his room in the first place had blown the light fuse...
...remarkably pretty, by movie standards, nor a remarkably good singer or dancer, has a vividly unique personality in a town that tends to reduce beauty and talent to mass-produced patterns. Watching her in action has some of the fascination of waiting for a wildly sputtering fuse to touch off an alarmingly large firecracker...
...Japan, across the world, people were no less grateful for spring, no less confused and bewildered than the Europeans whose bewildering civilization the Japanese were trying to fuse with their own. Last Saturday the sun came out between showers, and Japanese hurried purposefully about their beloved hanami, the flower-viewing...