Word: melts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mood to Paris. He has even established a modern version of the medieval institution of sanctuary by persuading the police to promise that no one in a shelter shall be asked for his identity papers. But Abbé Pierre knows well how quickly a rise in temperature can melt the city's new found concern. "It's not enough to prevent miserable people from dying in the streets," he says. "They have to be helped so they can live like...
Geologists have suggested that certain land mass configurations cause the glaciers. If, for an example, the Being Strait were to sink a few thousand feet, the Japanese current could pass through to melt the Arctic pack ice, and submerge the lower parts of all continents. Unfortunately for this theory, John Wolback points out that the four most recent glaciers have grown and died since the last significant distortion of the earth's crust...
...reductions in radiant energy cool the equator more than the poles, cutting temperature differences which create storms. Only an increase of the sun's general heating power will yield more snow, the sole food of glaciers. Yet if the sun's heat increases too much, the glaciers will melt...
December: The holiday season will begin as usual, with Macy's Christmas parade, and a denial of parole to Alger Hiss. Then animositics will melt in the glow of holiday good feeling, and newsmen will be forced to dust off their crystal balls once again...
...embellish even the fluffiest souffle with her brandied prose: "It came perfumed of the hot sugared fruit and toned with the magic of some liqueur . . . The waiter's spoon dipped in. and the souffle responded with a rapturous, half-hushed sigh as it settled softly to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream...