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Word: melts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting, the militias would assemble in one of their strange churches with templelike, turned-up roofs and bulbous bell towers, from which a lookout kept watch. Under the slant-eyed gaze of watercolor saints, they would sit holding their rusty rifles, sing hymns, receive a benediction and melt into the darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bishop's Soldiers | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...structure next to Northwestern's football stadium, was built for indoor sports. At the first plenary session the 4,000-seat public section was packed solid with sweating, shirtsleeved folk, but after the first long address in German (by Dr. Edmund Schlink-see below), the spectators began to melt away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Concentration on Christ | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

Cornell uses the hypersonic tunnel to find out what will happen to a guided missile that enters the atmosphere from space at many times the speed of sound. Even if it flies perfectly straight, it gets a rugged workout, with luminous gas racing around it hot enough to melt or vaporize any known substance. If it enters sideways with a yawing motion, as is more likely, the heating effect is much greater. A steel ball or a sharp-edge wedge turns into an artificial meteor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Meteor Tunnel | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Emil Gilels; State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R. conducted by Kiril Kondrashin; Vanguard). Top-ranking Soviet Pianist Gilels. in a rare U.S. hearing, sounds every bit as impressive as his reputation. His tone can melt or soar, and he has power to spare. Recording: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Apr. 19, 1954 | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...band (Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's), a rhumba outfit and an eight-woman string ensemble blared and sawed away, Marianne, all in pink with a diamond tiara, held court in a bower of pink flowers. Said she, as the new day dawned and the icy swans began to melt a bit: "If I had known it was going to be so cold, I would have had the tents draped with pink mink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 29, 1954 | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

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