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Virgin Sauce. For 1 person, place 5 tablespoons butter in a hot bowl, add ¼ teaspoon salt, beat with a whisk until the butter foams, put it over hot but not boiling water for an instant. The butter must not melt. When the butter foams, add drop by drop, never ceasing to whisk, 1 teaspoon lemon juice and 1 tablespoon tepid water. When they are well amalgamated with the foaming butter, add 1 tablespoon whipped cream and serve at once. This sauce is delicious with cold fish. It is something apart...
...fighting, the militias would assemble in one of their strange churches with templelike, turned-up roofs and bulbous bell towers, from which a lookout kept watch. Under the slant-eyed gaze of watercolor saints, they would sit holding their rusty rifles, sing hymns, receive a benediction and melt into the darkness...
...structure next to Northwestern's football stadium, was built for indoor sports. At the first plenary session the 4,000-seat public section was packed solid with sweating, shirtsleeved folk, but after the first long address in German (by Dr. Edmund Schlink-see below), the spectators began to melt away...
Cornell uses the hypersonic tunnel to find out what will happen to a guided missile that enters the atmosphere from space at many times the speed of sound. Even if it flies perfectly straight, it gets a rugged workout, with luminous gas racing around it hot enough to melt or vaporize any known substance. If it enters sideways with a yawing motion, as is more likely, the heating effect is much greater. A steel ball or a sharp-edge wedge turns into an artificial meteor...
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Emil Gilels; State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R. conducted by Kiril Kondrashin; Vanguard). Top-ranking Soviet Pianist Gilels. in a rare U.S. hearing, sounds every bit as impressive as his reputation. His tone can melt or soar, and he has power to spare. Recording: good...