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• n  a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions

• With the start of its fifth season at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, the Minnesota Theater Company represents a kind of crucible for the bubbling promises, heady .
• A magnet for entrepreneurs, artists, jet-setters and foreign money, Bombay is the crucible of the new India.
• A magnet for entrepreneurs, artists, jet-setters and foreign money, Bombay is the crucible of the new India: Life in Dharavi Inside Asia's biggest slum.

• melting pot

News & Articles

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• CADET Program ignites interest in firefighting
  Sierra Vista Firefighter Dave Parry, left, assists Confidence Accountability Diversity and Teamwork (CADET) Program participant Sam Fuller, 18, at Sierra Vista Fire Station 3 on Friday during a drill called the Crucible, in which they must crawl through a space with obstacles that may catch on their firefighting gear. (Candy Whiting • Herald/Review) SIERRA VISTA   — On Tuesday, about a dozen 16 ...
  June 15, 2013 - The Sierra Vista Herald
• 'The Crucible' comes to Mount Vernon this weekend
  MOUNT VERNON -- Sixty years after its premier, Arthur Miller's classic drama "The Crucible," loosely based on the infamous Salem Witch Trials, endures as a relevant story.
  June 14, 2013 - Mount Vernon News
• Norwood High School drama brings "The Crucible" to town
  The Norwood High School drama program is bringing a production of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” to town this weekend.
  June 13, 2013 - Norwood Bulletin

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• George HW Bush in International Herald Tribune
  Bush, speaking with McCain at his side in Texas Monday, said the former Vietnam prisoner-of-war has "character forged in the crucible of war," and was best prepared to lead the nation in the future.
• Gordon Brown in guardian.co.uk
  The regions that straddle that frontier form a "crucible of terrorism," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said during a visit to Afghanistan, where his country and the US have thousands of troops trying to stamp out the militant threat.
• Raymond Kelly in Javno.hr
  New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the plot was "different in its distinct ties to the Caribbean, a region that is rarely thought of in terms of terrorism but of increasing concern to us as a crucible in the foment of Islamic...