Word: melts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criteria of the attributes of a man of quality. The story goes that on a visit to Paris as Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev boasted about his Foreign Minister, saying, "I can order Gromyko to sit on a chunk of ice and he stays there until the ice has melted." Replied De Gaulle: "I can order Couve to sit on a chunk of ice, and it won't even begin to melt...
...firm ice until the long winter night sets in. They will camp again from October until March when the daily quota of sunlight is large enough for travel, having drifted near the North Pole during that North encampment. Then they will have to race against the spring surface melt and hopefully arrive at Longyearbyen on Spitzbergen Island in mid-June. There the H.M.S. Endurance will be on hand to return them to England
...gone beyond the early idea of a death ray and suggested that laser beams may eventually be powerful enough to provide the ultimate defensive weapon against missiles. Powerful laser beams, they predict, might well make iCBMs obsolete. Focused on an incoming missile, their light would generate enough heat to melt it into uselessness...
...powerful corporation known as Find-a-Bird Inc., promising to hunt down the lbis, around the world, if the Lampoon would agree to a lavish public ceremony upon receiving it back. The senior indicated that if the Lampoon didn't comply, Find-a-Bird might be dissolved to become Melt-a-Bird. When the lbis finally was ready to be returned to the Lampoon, the required celebration was arranged, before the Dartmouth Game at Freedom Square...
...destruction was too widespread to be happenstance. Items: Several burned neckties. A smashed mirror. A torn book titled What I Believe. A row of glass bottles, their necks grotesquely melted halfway down inside their bodies. A series of self-destructing slides-on their first showing, they melt and dissolve in the projector's heat...