Word: melt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sophomore Steve Martins made his season debut, back from an ankle injury that's kept him sidelined since the opening practice. Martins didn't burn holes in the scoring sheet, but his intensity sure helped melt BC's hopes...
...trademark elliptical phrases are also far more in evidence on this album, with oblique allusions in such lines as "Caligula would have blushed" ("Heaven Knows") and "I know how Joan of Arc felt as the flames rose to her roman nose and her Walkman started to melt ("Bigmouth Strikes Again...
...partner in crime, Beatrice (Jessie Cohen) is equally confident and effective. Her acid attacks on Benedick melt into real compassion at the appropriate moment. Cohen's prim superciliousness perfectly captures her character...
...EARTH GETS WARMER, WILL THE ICE CAPS melt? That's a matter of hot debate among scientists who worry about possible climatic change. The Antarctic ice sheet alone is larger than the continental U.S. and holds a mass of water that if melted would raise world sea levels by about...
...were it not for a foehn that last year delivered tons of North African desert sand to the Alpine ridges. "This is a common phenomenon," explains climatologist Dreiseitel, "but in 1991 it coincided with a winter that produced little snow, and the coating of sand increased the rate of melt on the high peaks." All over the Alps that summer, glaciers retreated -- including Similaun. Even then, it was only by chance that the world learned of the Iceman. "By the end of September," says Spindler, "he would have been buried under a half-meter of snow. Most probably, he would...