Word: melting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other versions of the oft-told Beatrix Potter classic. Vivien Leigh tells it as if she had grown up at the foot of the old fir tree, and Lyricist David Croft and Musician Cyril Ornadel hit it off like Lerner & Loewe. It takes a hard heart not to melt at naughty Peter's wistful "Why do I do it?" Pity that this team has cut only two other Potter records: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck...
...then such is the increase in buying power that imports grow twice as fast. In the fourth quarter, they shot up 17½% and Commerce experts predict that performance will continue through 1966. As a result, the U.S. trade surplus-the excess of exports over imports-continues to melt, from $6.7 billion in 1964 to $4.8 billion in 1965 to its present annual rate of $4 billion. That surplus is what the U.S. must rely on to finance foreign aid and the cost of the Viet Nam war, both of which put hundreds of millions of dollars into hands across...
Waiting for the tide, Portuguese fishermen, with leathery faces, stand ready by their boats. The loading and packing house is brightly lighted inside, full of crates and tubs of ice (which couldn't possibly melt), and everywhere the odor, the aroma, of fish--cod, of course...
...determining melting points of iron (and all other substances that increase in volume as they melt), scientists have long used Lindemann's Law, a complicated mathematical formula describing the relationship between the melting temperature of a substance and the pressure upon it. But Geologist Kennedy was disturbed by the widely varying and apparently inaccurate results obtained when the law was applied at higher pressures. He decided that something was wrong...
...ever attacked," Ben-Gurion once asked him, admiring the sculpture, "where do you want us to hide your bronzes?" Rose didn't hesitate a minute. "Don't hide them," he said. "Melt them down into bullets...