Word: melt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...miners who sneak rich bits of ore out of mines in their hair, ears, mouths, between their toes, between slices of bread in their dinner pails, or who raid staked claims which are not yet producing. They peddle their loot to "receivers" for about $10 an ounce. The receivers melt the stolen ore into "buttons" worth $4,000 to $5,000 each. Then "carriers" tote the buttons, usually hidden in multiple-pocket corsets, into the U.S. Most of the gold reaches New York City, where refiners pay $30 an ounce for it, sell it in turn to the U.S. Treasury...
...poor stammering loon of a 4-F whose stupidity is excelled only by his utterly selfless devotion. As Trudy watches him gratefully writhing in her clutches, she begins for the first time to love him. His efforts to save her good name, fantastically inept and deeply touching, would melt much colder hearts than hers. At the picture's end Norval, through no doing of his own, is at once ridiculous, pitiful and a national hero. As he shows up in his splendid new uniform, flashbulbed, bewildered, happy, homely, still unaware of what is in store for him, he receives...
Nylon will have many plastic competitors. But it combines advantages of the two general types of plastics: as a thermoplastic it can be resoftened and reworked, but like thermosetting plastics, it is relatively resistant to heat. Its softening point is 450°F. (most thermoplastics melt at about 160°F.). Nylon is also exceedingly light and tough, easily machined, impervious to oil, grease and the action of most solvents...
...have seen strong minded, determined women-haters melt into the love-mellowed spectacle of a grinning newlywed. And why? Simply because of unpreparedness. "Know your protagonist" to paraphrase a current war-poster, that's part of the answer. You too can suffer your own personal Pearl Harbor. This dissertation is designed to fill in the gaps and to cover your Achilles Heel with moral mortar...
...trumped by South with the seven of spades. That leaves South with two diamonds which North will trump with the ace and queen of spades, and North with a club and a heart which South will trump with the king and jack of spades. West's four trumps melt up painfully beneath this shower of alternate high honors...