Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...metal "spaghetti," apparently tore through the skin of the whig. When the engine flew off, it carried away the pumps for one of the plane's three hydraulic systems. The engine may also have cut through hydraulic lines in the front of the wing. In either case, fluid necessary to maintain pressure on controls spilled out. The leading-edge flaps that were extended from the front of the whig to supply extra lift on takeoff may have been struck and damaged by the engine. Or the lack of hydraulic pressure to keep the flaps out may have permitted...
...gone silent. They theorized that the breakaway of the engine at a moment of maximum thrust, and with the plane fully loaded, had unbalanced the weight at a critical moment. Investigators also suspected that what some witnesses thought was fuel escaping from the wing might have been hydraulic fluid, which would have deprived Captain Lux of critical controls to maintain flight...
...body of Guillermo Diaz Lestrem turned up like a ghastly flower in Buenos Aires' elegant Palermo Park late last fall. The cause of death was heart failure and fluid in the lungs; the corpse had bruises on the face and neck. Shortly before he vanished, Lestrem, a defense lawyer and former judge, had prepared a writ of habeas corpus-on his own behalf. He had discovered that unknown men were looking for him and feared that he would become yet another of Argentina's "desaparecidos...
...reactor's computer is programmed to drop the control rods back into the core. That curtails the core's chain reaction, but heat is still given off. If the core's temperature rises precipitously as a result of the problem, possibly a loss of cooling fluid (a "blowdown"), the computer will activate an emergency core cooling system. That system should quickly dump thousands of gallons of water on the hot core, preventing what has become known as a "meltdown," in which the fuel melts through the floor of the containment building into the ground and possibly erupts...
...necessary to enter Carl Jung's collective unconscious and search among primordial archetypes (the great mother, the old man) that supposedly lurk there. It seems reasonable enough to suppose that Americans test the looks of would-be Presidents against an accumulating folkloric archetype, a fluid and ambiguous composite formed of several diverse figures...