Word: melts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think that the sober, ginhorse routine of existence could inspire a man with life, & love, & joy-could fire him with enthusiasm, or melt him with pathos. . . ? No! No! Whenever I want to be more than ordinary in song ... do you imagine I fast & pray for the celestial emanation? Tout au contraire! I have a glorious recipe ... I put myself on a regimen of admiring a fine woman...
...jail for his part in a deliberate protest violation of South Africa's rigid race-segregation laws. Last week Manilal withdrew his appeal and surrendered to Transvaal police. Said he: "My rightful place as a self-respecting person is in prison ... By my voluntary sufferings, I seek to melt the hearts of the government...
...engines often reach temperatures3,700° Fahrenheit at the core of their blast hot enough to burn ordinary steel like paper. The planes themselves are approaching speeds at which aluminum aircraft skins would lose their strength, then melt. Nor is heat the only problem. Building of the first atomic reactors disclosed the fact that most metals absorb or "eat up" the atomic neutrons needed to provide the fission and motive power...
Negroes know that they have advanced because these are good times for the country as a whole, and some fear that their gains might melt away in a depression. But most Negro leaders agree that the Negro's progress in the past decade has been too solid ever to be rolled back easily. One measure of that progress is the fact that the Negro's biggest preoccupation is not economics, but social equality...
...dropped into the clouds from planes and, by lowering the temperature of the air, creates small ice crystals or nuclei to which the water drops in the cloud cling. These drops then fall and melt into rain as they near the earth...