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...gazed through the window, watching the snowflakes whirl out of the blackness into the light that radiated from his room, following them as they curved past the panes and out of sight again. Large clots occasionally caught on the glass; began to melt, then dragged downward until they disappeared into a trail of water. Fleece piled up into triangles in the corners of the windowsill, slowly creeping up over the edges of the bottom panes, rounding off the window's squareness. There they hung, shining glazier's points, with their pale faces flattened against the panes, peering...
...Chinese guerrillas, largely operating in Shansi, Hopeh and Shantung Provinces, are loosely organized into a "People's Self-Defense Army." Crude village arsenals make their grenades, bullets and broadswords, but much of their ammunition is unwillingly furnished by the Japanese. Clad in green cotton uniforms enabling them to melt into the countryside after a daylight raid, the guerrillas are taught to wreck Japanese troop and supply trains, ambush food convoys and attack isolated Japanese garrisons...
...slain tress, a foot or so of Drive and Charles; and the clock now brazenly and imperatively in full view, no doubt. The rest of his uprooted belongings, including the radio which squeals, were also set up in a New territory, embarrassed, trying to regain their Old composure, to melt dustily and uncomplainingly into their erstwhile demure obscurity. A New bed with an unfamiliar sag. A New bureau with all the knobs on the drawers. An utterly New and slightly terrifying room. . . a New Year...
...Lightweight Paul Runyan, whose tee shots carry no further than the average week-end golfer's, played the sort of game that breaks an opponent's spirit. Although outdriving him 40 to 50 yards on each hole, Snead watched his advantage melt around the greens where Runyan's game was hotter than the noonday sun. At the end of the morning round, Titan Snead was ready to throw his clubs in the nearby Delaware. He had not succeeded in winning a hole. Runyan was 5 up, had been leading ever since the third hole...
...experimental tests Dr. Hultgren has successfully molted iridium at 4230 degrees Fahrenheit; platinum at 3200 degrees; and pallodium at 2790 degrees. Ruthenium was heated to 440 degrees Fahrenheit and "sintered" a little but did no melt...