Word: melt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tomb, the poor cooked their free camel and ox meat on great bonfires. The big war drums boomed through the night. After seven days of merrymaking, the husbands would claim their brides, the British could sigh with relief. For then the Mahdi's dervishes, wives and all, would melt back into the deserts and fields of the Sudan...
...foreign investments. But lower tariffs, loans and shipping in. foreign bottoms are all politically unpopular (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the absence of any overall program, most economists guess that the dollar crisis will arrive by year's end and the present boom in U.S. foreign trade may melt away overnight...
...President of the United States, Detective, by H. R. Heard (who, as Gerald Heard, is also a Southern California cult-leader), last week won first ($3,000) prize in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine annual story contest. Heard's plot: What would happen if the icecaps completely melted? The year is 1977, and an expanded U.S.S.R. has fallen under the domination of a vicious Oriental named Yang, who plots to destroy the U.S.A. by geological warfare. Yang's plan is to melt the earth's icecaps with atomic energy. The water released will raise the level...
...multiplication tables by rote-but only after they have been beguiled into understanding the necessity for them. They first find out about arithmetic by adding and subtracting blocks, later by planning railroad trips in dollars, miles, and hours. They study science by first "exploring" the subject: they weigh snow, melt it, keep daily logs of weather and temperature...
...examined lots of death rays, which inventors claimed could melt rocks, kill animals at great distances. None met his specifications. Some were fakes; their inventors fled as soon as Dr. Murray hove in sight. Best performer: a heat-projecting gadget which, its inventor claimed, cooked a canary (in Spain) at 30 feet...