Word: melt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orderly fashion, deflation continued to melt away some of the economy's excess fat. The cost of living had dropped enough by last week to bring pay cuts, ranging from 1? to 3? an hour, for more than 2,000,000 workers, whose escalator contracts are tied to the cost of living. But most workers accepted the cut without protest...
...down from polar bases-out of range of American cities. And U.S. planes, heading north, would welcome arctic bases. But the little that the armed services have already learned from their arctic operations has made one thing clear: conventional construction won't work. Buildings settle unevenly as they melt their way into permafrost (subsoil, some of which has been frozen solid since the ice age). Roads buckle and heave. Runways are soon pockmarked with dangerous chuckholes...
...circulate from great tanks on the roof. The "Wet Snow" lab, warmest of the six, stays at one degree above freezing, while one man at a time works with snow shipped down by refrigerated trucks from Michigan and northern Wisconsin. The added body heat of a second scientist might melt away an expensive experiment...
...with more than half the election districts recorded, Stevenson led by 86,000. Analysts had thought Ike might lose Pennsylvania if the Democratic majority in Philadelphia exceeded 100,000. The Philadelphia sweep raised the possibility that 1948 would repeat itself and the early G.O.P. lead in the nation might melt away...
Designer Felix Trombe has a long list of experiments that he intends to perform with his pure heat. Most urgent: making hard-to-melt ceramics out of zirconium, thorium and aluminum oxides...