Word: melted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alltime winter high. Home TV pictures shrank slightly in the Baltimore area when voltage was cut by 5% to conserve energy. Maryland woods were sprinkled with thousands of dead birds, which were unable to penetrate the icy snow to reach food. Stores were running out of rock salt to melt ice, but elderly women found a substitute to steady their steps on sidewalks: a scattering of kitty litter. In Aston Township, Pa., Ned Oppelt, 24, decided that it was too cold to risk a long walk home from a party, crawled into a Laundromat's king-sized clothes dryer...
What happened to all the other "advanced" civilizations in the universe9 Did they discover the nuclear genie at the same time they began to announce their presence? As his last act, did the genie melt the loudspeaker...
...cerebral and perverse artsiness and a free-lance format for Malcolm MacDowell. MacDowell requires no coaching or handholding here; he does for amoral punkdom what the Bowery Boys never could. The union of these two visionary hard-guys still proves chilling, and no amount of humane breath could melt this icicled look at tomorrow...
...discipline of climatology-the study of long-range trends in weather-is still an inexact science, to say the least. Climatologists still disagree on whether earth's long-range outlook is another ice age, which could bring mass starvation and fuel shortages, or a warming trend, which could melt the polar icecaps and flood coastal cities...
...shot into it, pounded away the nose and pried off the laurel wreath. With fife and drums playing The Rogue's March, the crowd carried off the mangled head, which eventually disappeared. The carcass is to be cut up and shipped to Connecticut, where patriotic women plan to melt the lead down into ammunition. Estimated result: more than 42,000 bullets with which to drive out the fallen King's lobsterbacks...