Word: melted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funny female indeed, but in Blondes she suggests the football-playing "heroine" of a varsity show more than the deceptively fragile Lorelei. With her tremendous saucer eyes, her exaggerated mincing steps, her voice that goes suddenly Dixie and suddenly husky, and her simultaneous suggestion that butter wouldn't melt in her mouth and steel bars would bend in her hands, she is not so much a broad caricature as a pure original. She is forced to overdo the whole thing, but in such individual numbers as A Little Girl from Little Rock it richly pays...
Since the speed of the exhaust gases is proportionate to the temperature in the combustion chamber, Lewis next calculated what temperature such a rocket's materials would have to stand. The figure came out about 506,000° F., which is about 80 times more than enough to melt a combustion chamber made of any known substance...
...hash-houses, sleeping when he could, trying to stay fit for one big match after another. Last week Big Jake cast a quizzical eye upon 190-lb. Pancho Gonzales, 21, twice U.S. amateur champion and current aspirant to Kramer's professional throne. Said Kramer: "He'll melt off some of that weight, and every pound will make it tougher on me. Pancho didn't get enough work as an amateur...
Tito had a heavy tan, which made his white-streaked blond hair seem even lighter in color, but he did not look 57. His face was just as mobile as ever, and his harsh look would melt into a ready laugh as he used his hands to emphasize a point. He appeared to be enjoying life, and if he felt under any strain it was not apparent. He wore dazzling white flannel slacks and a pale blue sport shirt embroidered with the monogram...
...Stockholm's fashionable shopping center, he met Baroness Sigrid ("Siri") Wrangel, an angel with Nordic frosting, looking as sweetly innocent as if caviar would not melt in her mouth. It was love...