Word: melts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...receiving end of accurately thrown stones as the Somalis scream, "Out with the infidel!" Even Mogadishu, Somalia's sunny, somnolent capital (pop. 150,000), has a perennial air of impermanence, particularly in the rainy season, when some of its mud buildings show a disconcerting tendency to melt into the gutters...
...infidelities with a dull, bovine mistress, is ready to ask for a separation; and his creativity is at an end--he cannot get started on the film he is directing. His friends are falling away, though a mob of admirers follows him almost everywhere, firing inane questions that melt into a babble of noise...
...Bond in the drinking department. He squeezes in three or four martinis before breakfast and even while dancing carries a giant brandy snifter around. On the other hand, he is sadly deficient in the love department. One smooth line of his goes, "I didn't know ice cubes could melt so fast...
Adams' crust piercer, which he patented and assigned to the AEC, is a high-temperature nuclear reactor designed to melt its way into rock. The reactor is 2 ft. to 3 ft. in diameter, and its active material (uranium oxide) is enclosed in a cylinder of beryllium oxide, which serves as a heat insulator. The lower point, mostly tungsten, is heavy, while the upper point, mostly beryllium, is light...
Puddle of Lava. The "Needle Reactor," as Adams calls it, will be placed in a shallow shaft before its nuclear reactor is allowed to go critical. Quickly the temperature will rise to about 1,100° C. (2,012° F.), which is hot enough to melt most rock. Because of the insulation around the midsection, most of the heat will flow downward; soon the lower point will be surrounded by a puddle of lava. The needle reactor will gradually drop into this plastic stuff, and the lava will close over it and solidify...