Word: meltedness
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Sammy did not think about the city. Rick had his pictures but did not develop them. Streets melted into highways, and palm trees gasped in the night air. Sammy put down his drink. Let's go, he said to Rick.
And when a stocky Russian next accepted the gold medal for the biathlon, the cheering once again was unrestrained. Even across the town--where the people waiting for buses could see a the fireworks fill the sky but only hear strains of the National Anthems--cheers overpowered the cold, and...
Most of the pieces are ordinary silver, ranging from teaspoons to tea sets, but some are antiques worth far more than their weight in bullion. An exquisitely ornamented sterling cup made in 1835 changed hands in London for $272. Jeweler Abraham Lipchitz bought it on the street and quickly turned...
In the haste to cash in, some dealers are heaving precious pieces into the melting pot. Says John Culme, head of the silver department at Sotheby Belgravia: "People did the same thing during the Great Depression. Really wonderful Victorian centerpieces, tea sets and even 18th century dinner plates were melted...
Dealers pay cash, and then they deliver the scrap to the few smelting companies that have the special furnaces capable of reaching the extraordinarily high temperatures that burn away alloys. Before the dealers are paid, they must wait until the metal is melted down, assayed, and formed into bars by...