Word: melts
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Grand Canyon), rises in the mountains of Wyoming. It floods in summer, when the high snows melt, and when the desert lands gasp for moisture. In July a spectacular sheet of white water, a quarter of a mile wide, 17 feet thick and twice as high as Niagara, spills over the top of Grand Coulee Dam. In time, this overflow will be channeled off to irrigate half a million acres of desert without sacrificing one kilowatt of electrical output. Only then will the New Deal's resettlement dream come true, in the blossoming in the sagebrush...
Surrealism was an old tired story when World War II outdated it for keeps. Some of Surrealist Salvador Dali's zany stunts were curiously prophetic of blast and ruin; today they seem tame compared with the actuality of bombs that can melt watches, toss armchairs into treetops and instantly disintegrate a man. Dali is showman enough to know it and he has taken a new tack-back toward Raphael...
Shireen is unfaithful to her husband, who is on duty in the Pacific, with a succession of his brothers-in-arms. Some of these cozy activities are described with a searing tenderness that may melt the dental braces of gaping adolescents-as when, in her lover's embrace, Shireen is suddenly "aware of a spreading ease, as though inside her a flower had burst open its petals...
Between the Crops. But nobody denied that the union had the right valley, if the wrong man. Last week an estimated 40,000 farm laborers were jobless, watching their savings melt away between the early cotton and the delayed potato crop. A small fraction of them lived passably well in the former Government camps, now run by growers' associations, but an uncounted number were living as the U.S. likes to think none of its citizens lives-in corrugated tin hovels or sagging tents, with no capital left to drag a flock of youngsters to the next harvest area...
Place the first glass near a fire to melt, and drink up second glass before snow has turned to water...