Word: melts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gets warmer, sea water will get warmer too, and CO2 dissolved in it will return to the atmosphere. More water will evaporate from the warm ocean, and this will increase the greenhouse effect of the CO2. Each effect will reinforce the other, possibly raising the temperature enough to melt the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland, which would flood the earth's coastal lands...
...Tomorrow makes womem melt their white lace collars and soak their pink handkerchiefs at the Astor. Susan Hayward gives a sensitive portrayal of the life of singer and ex-alcoholic Lillian Roth. Shows...
...Rita Streich, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf; Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan; Angel, 3 LPs). One of Strauss's important operas, handicapped by a confused libretto, but abetted by some soaringly lyrical music. Even when the score is less than inspired, the cast's three unbeatable leading sopranos melt the listener...
...labor-hungry whirlaway of U.S. production, job discrimination against the Negro has begun to melt. Swept off farms since 1930 (when they made up 35% of rural labor), Negroes by this year made up nearly 72% of the unskilled and semiskilled manual labor force. But only about 10% of U.S. middle-class white-collar workers are Negroes...
...Democratic case is more complex. Stevenson is assumed to be far ahead if he wants it-and he is assumed to want it. But his support could melt if, for instance, Estes Kefauver won a startling string of primaries as he did in 1952-or if Averell Harriman, who looks like a more serious contender now than he did six months ago, continues to gain...