Word: melts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even rocks melt if you apply enough heat. Harvard sometimes seems to be a boulder," Bourke said...
...anytime soon. He may last long enough to prove that he is the sheriff, perhaps even the tiger. But whatever happens to Gorbachev or to his troubled country, there is one thing that neither today's Kremlinologists nor future historians can deny: it was he who made the ice melt...
Thus was created the world's largest stretch of inhospitable land. Precipitation is so sparse over Antarctica's 14 million sq. km (5.4 million sq. mi.) that it is classified as one of the world's dryest deserts. Because most of the small amount of snow never melts and has accumulated for centuries, 98% of Antarctica is permanently covered by a sheet of ice that has an average thickness of 2,155 meters (7,090 ft.). That accounts for 90% of the world's ice and 68% of its fresh water. Although the sun shines continuously in the summer months...