Word: melt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, all townspeople on the street quickly melt away, to be replaced by I.R.A. gunmen, who fire at the soldiers from behind parked cars before vanishing again themselves. These attacks have become so ritualized that Crossmagleners have posted signs warning incoming motorists whenever an army patrol ventures out. More often than not, the I.R.A.'s illegal tricolor flag hangs above the gutted town hall...
...library, a photographic darkroom and several computer-equipped scientific laboratories. In Quonset-like buildings adjoining the dome are the base's power plant, biology lab, dispensary and garage. One of the huts also shelters an ingenious freshwater system that uses heat from the diesel generators to melt snow...
...bells were installed in Lowell when it was built in 1930. A plumbing manufacturer had rescued the bells from a small Russian village that had been about to melt them down...
Seen in that light a lot of the Superdome's flaws just melt away. The Dome may have overrun its original cost estimates by more than 500 per cent, becoming the biggest gravy train for Louisiana builders and politicians in years--but so, for all we know, may have the Pyramid of Cheops, and who remembers that now? What does it matter that the Superdome is actually ugly, a vast heap of metal that now dominates downtown New Orleans? Or that it has bad acoustics and ventilation or that nobody can find the bathrooms, or that...
...only that Venera 9 and 10 were a "new type of spacecraft" that would make scientific explorations of Venus and its environment. Western observers expected the ships to attempt soft landings on the scalding Venusian surface, where the temperature is more than 1,000° F.-hot enough to melt lead-and atmospheric pressure is 90 times that of the earth's at sea level...