Word: melts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something Borrowed. Between these two ways of life, between the jostle and the ceremony, the Japanese maintain a sort of coexistence, each facet rubbing against and invisibly changing the other, but never allowed quite to melt into one pattern. This frictional interplay was going on long before the Americans arrived with their atomic bombs, occupation army and MacArthur's new constitution. For 70 remarkable years after Commodore Perry steamed into Uraga Harbor, Japan, under the enlightened reign of Emperor Meiji, force-fed itself on all the Western notions, inventions, techniques and customs it could absorb...
...world, for a long time to come, will use atoms mainly to generate electric power. Operation of an atomic reactor at Chalk River in Canada established the essential safety of an atomic power plant. When the reactor, one day, ran out of control it merely grew hot enough to melt tons of metal, without causing a catastrophic explosion...
...Wednesday last the walks in the Yard were for hundreds of feet an inch and a half deep in snow slush by ten o'clock in the morning. This was merely the snow which had been packed down by the passers when it fell, and which was sure to melt with the first thaw. As this was inevitable, provision might have been made ahead, so that when the snow began to soften on Wednesday morning, a dozen men set to work promptly could have made all but two or three of the paths clear and dry before eleven o'clock...
Virgin Sauce. For 1 person, place 5 tablespoons butter in a hot bowl, add ¼ teaspoon salt, beat with a whisk until the butter foams, put it over hot but not boiling water for an instant. The butter must not melt. When the butter foams, add drop by drop, never ceasing to whisk, 1 teaspoon lemon juice and 1 tablespoon tepid water. When they are well amalgamated with the foaming butter, add 1 tablespoon whipped cream and serve at once. This sauce is delicious with cold fish. It is something apart...
...omelette in the air to turn it over in the pan. Mix 1½ tablespoons flour and 4 tablespoons granulated sugar, and 1 pinch of salt. Add these to the well-beaten yolks of 6 eggs. Blend well, and then fold into the well-beaten whites of 6 eggs. Melt ¼lb. butter in a large, deep, iron frying pan. Pour the mixture into this. Cook over a slow flame for 3 to 4 minutes. Then place under the broiler and cook slowly for 3 to 4 minutes longer. Put in a slow oven for 2 to 3 minutes longer...