Word: melting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...employees. Post office employees earn 3.5% less than industrial workers (a mailman averages $30 weekly), but Postmaster General Reginald Bevins flatly refused an increase, offered only to study the subject. To make up for the slowdown, he ordered postal employees to work overtime, but it was like trying to melt a glacier. At Mount Pleasant. London's main sorting office, the backlog rose to 5,000,000 letters. Railway stations were swamped: in one shed alone at Euston. 100,000 mailbags waited four days to be picked up. The post office announced that it could not handle parcel post...
...almost certain loss of his post as Defense Minister under a coalition government, and he generally distrusts the idea of a neutral Laos. Phoumi argues that the Geneva accord is a trap to get U.S. troops out of Laos, while the Red cadres from North Viet Nam will simply melt into the countryside, later return to the attack. The U.S. is in the difficult position of trying to back both a neutralist course for Laos and General Phoumi, who in turn would undoubtedly get a more respectful hearing for his uncompromising stand if in a year of fighting...
...Russians are testing in the Arctic. Would it be possible for a series of these explosions to melt enough ice to cause an appreciable rise in the sea level? "No. Nuclear explosions are hot--during a blast this size the earth is receiving more energy from them than it is from the sun. But they are much too short to melt a dangerous amount of ice. There is more total energy, from start to finish, in a good-sized hurricane than in a nuclear explosion...
...They are melt numbers. From one melting pot of gold, each bar (usually 20) receives the same number...
...with my house." In his chalets he scornfully abandoned the traditional Swiss peaked roof ("All you achieve is that the snow comes crashing down in huge packs on unsuspecting pedestrians"), boldly invented a practical, washbasin roof of concrete warmed by the central heating of the building just enough to melt snow...