Word: melts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rapidly expanding electromagnetic field-the EMP. Just as a moving magnetic field induces currents in the wires of a generator, the expanding EMP produces powerful currents in any electrical conductor it crosses. At considerable distances from the blast, these induced currents are strong enough to blow fuses or melt wiring and other metallic components in ground installations and aircraft. They would probably have the same effect on a missile's guidance and firing systems...
Resentful, Resentful. Girls were inclined to melt when they looked into his "Madonna eyes" but refreeze slightly when they noted his "mean-looking mouth." O'Neill maintained a free course for himself, to the point of sleeping with the wife of lohn Reed (Ten Days That Shook the World) at a time when Reed was one of his closest friends. But whenever his own second wife, Agnes Boulton, so much as sat with another man, O'Neill was capable of hitting her across the face "as hard as possible with the back of his hand...
...south and they never come back. And they're doing no better in the war." One U.S. observer insisted that Hanoi can rely on only six of every ten men sent south to fight; the rest defect, including an even larger number of North Vietnamese civilian administrators, or melt into the jungle. The growing rate of defections, moreover, leads to better allied intelligence-a major factor in recent months in blunting Communist offensives...
...study otherwise inaccessible chemical reactions that occur in the extreme temperatures of rocket engines, for example, or under the stupendous pressures at the center of the earth. "In safety and at their leisure," says Clementi, "they will be able to produce these reactions in a computer that will not melt in the heat or collapse from the pressure...
...farmhouse, sleeping in canvas beds or on the floor, and since there wasn't enough room in the house, many took cover in corrals. There were pigs in one pen, people in the next." The youths had planned to meet at 7 a.m., elect new officers and melt away, but neighboring peasants tipped off police. Breezing past a warning shot fired by a student sentinel, São Paulo cops rounded up all 739, carted them off in trucks and Jeeps and slapped them into jail. After questioning, most of the students were released and sent back home...