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...private preserve of John Hay Whitney, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, he went poaching for big game and bagged two handsome specimens: Pundits Walter Lippmann. now under contract, and Joseph Alsop, who will sign up later this year. Adding insult to injury. Graham then suggested that Whitney melt the Trib's 14-man Washington bureau into Graham's huge squad of newsmen. That proved to be a serious mistake...
...until they have restored the B. & O. to financial health. The B. & O. needs quite a bit of shaping up. Weighed down by $418 million in debt and strapped for cash to carry out overdue modernization programs, the once mighty B. & O. has watched its revenues melt from $465 million in 1956 to $351 million in 1961, and seen its long string of profits turn into a 1961 loss of $31 million. By contrast, the go-ahead C. & O. earned a solid $35 million last year...
...Krock, never wittier or more sardonic, suggests the word might first have been pronounced when McNamara predicted that a Soviet destroyer would "heave in sight." But ExComm's presiding officer, called "Himself," corrects him with "The word is hove." Otherwise, Krock turns ExComm into MadAv. "Let's melt this ball of wax and move the hardware from the shelf," suggests Krock's McNamara. "Suppose I start batting out the fungoes." Sorenson-or somebody identified as "T. S-"-says, "You mean toss it in the well and see the kind of splash it makes; follow it into...
...Melting Copper. To save money, Khrushchev seemed ready to start a modern wave of iconoclasm: "You know how irrationally we use metal on various monuments to satisfy philistine tastes. We pay gold to buy copper abroad. If Lenin would rise up he would say: 'Our great cause is not ennobled by monuments.' Let us issue a call for removing copper where it is unnecessary, and let us melt it down for more important things...
...there is a foamy crust of crumbly, crackerjack-like material or a lunar honeycomb with cells intact and filled with gas. The moon got that way, he figures, because it has been bombarded with meteors for billions of years. Striking the moon's skin with enough energy to melt 100 times their own mass, the meteors liquefied rock or whatever else they hit, splashing gobs of molten material all over the lunar landscape...