Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that a Canadian Pacific freight train had been derailed in nearby Vermont, capsizing untold thousands of cases of beer. One contingent of Dartmouth Indians made off with nearly 200 cases the first night, and a mob of them got away with 300 more the next night. The liberated liquid is now buried around campus in snow-covered mounds...
Working with small wind tunnels and flowing streams of liquid, they equipped small streamlined models with pointed electrical conductors and applied high, direct-current voltages to them. As a result, a powerful electrical field was projected in front of the models, ionizing the air or liquid molecules ahead of them. Before the charged particles could reach the model, its own electrical charge repulsed them, shoving them out of the way of the model's leading edge. Projected from the leading surfaces of an SST, the scientists hope, a larger and more powerful electrical field will have the same effect...
...nonbook, or as Miss Hackett would say, a "nonreading" book. A lifelong career woman in the book business, she thus distinguishes between reading books and nonreading books much as an alcoholic or a barman would describe bourbon and branch water as a drink and Metrecal as a non-drink-liquid food, perhaps. In any event, the nonreading category consists of two main classes, the "how-to" and the "self-help." After the Bible, whose varied editions and vast sales are beyond specific reckoning, the top sellers of all time among all books (see box) are Dr. Benjamin Spock...
...they can also do things like liquefy and multiply, or fell a foe with a laser-beam glance. The skies are guarded by Roger Ramjet, the seas by Marine Boy, the barnyard by Super Chicken. What they can't handle, Granite Man, Frogman, Coil Man, Spider Man, Liquid Man, Aquaman, Multi Man and Birdman can. Yet of all the offspring of TV's comic book culture, the most lethargic is Video Boy. He doesn't do anything. He just sits there, sucks his thumb and stares at the tube...
Recently he sat at his dressing room piano after a rehearsal at the Met and sketched a bravado musical self-portrait with his favorite Strauss works. He struck a theme from Don Juan: an image for the dark, liquid eyes, flaring nostrils and smoldering visage that prompted one of his many female admirers to compare him to "an untamed animal-sensual and earthy." Then Don Quixote: a reflection of his penchant for tilting in public at sacred cultural institutions. Then Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks: the insouciant wink-and-nudge of a joker who likes to imitate other people...