Word: melt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have seen strong minded, determined women-haters melt into the love-mellowed spectacle of a grinning newlywed. And why? Simply because of unpreparedness. "Know your protagonist" to paraphrase a current war-poster, that's part of the answer. You too can suffer your own personal Pearl Harbor. This dissertation is designed to fill in the gaps and to cover your Achilles Heel with moral mortar...
...trumped by South with the seven of spades. That leaves South with two diamonds which North will trump with the ace and queen of spades, and North with a club and a heart which South will trump with the king and jack of spades. West's four trumps melt up painfully beneath this shower of alternate high honors...
Last week the white man still persuaded and threatened. The Indians watched the snow melt on the peaks of the Sangre de Cristo range, watched the water trickle down into the sun-drenched Rio Grande valley, watched the locoweed purple and the sand lizards take shade in clumps of wild four-o'clock. They and their ancestors had seen spring come to the Pueblos thus for countless generations...
Warm winds from the southwest blew across the southern Ukraine last week. From Kharkov to the Sea of Azov the snow began to melt and the rich black earth steamed. Red Army men took off their cloth helmets and marched bareheaded. Tankers lifted their turrets and breathed lungfuls of the fresh, clean...
...still had one more weapon left. If nothing else, Gandhi's powerful personality had escaped from seven months' enforced obscurity in jail. Within his philosophical creed of Satyagraha, which calls on the power of "love and true knowledge" to overcome all difficulties, he might still hope to "melt the hearts" of his enemies...