Word: melts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done in by his advisers. He was assured that the invasion might well set off an anti-Castro uprising in Cuba-which constituted a bad misreading of the political situation. Moreover, he had been told all along that if the invasion as such failed, the anti-Castro forces could melt into the mountains and fight as guerrillas. According to Sorensen, the trouble was that Kennedy, who could not have looked at a map very carefully, did not realize that from the Bay of Pigs, "the 80-mile route to the Escambray Mountains, to which he had been assured they could...
...bombproof pit. Explained Rose: "If there are a couple of million people who are willing to gamble flesh and blood on Israel, I don't see why I can't gamble a few tons of stone and marble. And if they are ever attacked, they can melt the metal down and make bullets out of the sculpture...
Faltering Will. Southern resistance to Negro equality took a form that would today be called guerrilla warfare: a network of secret cells, random terrorism, assassination, intensive propaganda, and armed irregular units able to melt into the population like Mao Tse-tung's celebrated fish. The resistance was successful-like all other guerrilla movements that have succeeded-only because of a faltering of will and a turning away from the struggle by the Federal Government...
Genius? Is that what may erupt from all that awful pressure? Or break through leaving a hole the size of a cannon ball? Or escape only in little flatulences, never hinting at the megatons of helium inside, until the jeers melt to chuckles and the crowd moves off to new amusement...
...would keep the Government in the market as a big buyer and at least prevent the price from going any lower. On the other side are the silver users, backed by Congressmen from the industrial East. They are urging the U.S. to eliminate silver completely from new coins and melt down its old coins; they figure that such a move would not only end the shortage but reduce prices by putting the Government out of the silver market...