Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While workers were preparing to transfer 20,000 gal. of liquid propane gas from a derailed tank car to trucks in Waverly, Tenn., the gas suddenly exploded, leveling 14 buildings. "It was just like you were thrown into a furnace," said Truck Driver Carl Stokes, who was burned severely. "It was like a power throwing us into the sun. People were walking, their clothes were gone and their bodies were completely burned." The toll: twelve dead and at least 50 injured...
There's no such thing as liquid soap in the showers at Dillon Field House...
...somewhat different view. In an interview in Co-Evolution Quarterly, a magazine devoted to ecology, Schweickart says, among other things, that perhaps the most beautiful sight in space is a urine dump. A urine dump? It seems that when orbiting astronauts release into space their voided urine, the liquid instantly freezes into millions of tiny ice crystals, which form a hemisphere and spray out in all directions from the exit nozzle. The same thing would happen to ordinary water, but none is ever dumped; it is all recycled through the spacecraft. "The most beautiful sight in orbit...
...reprocessing center at Cap de la Hague, near Cherbourg, and thus bring the country's total capacity to 2,400 tons a year. Officials insist that the program will not turn France into an international nuclear trash heap. The French plants will dispose of light radioactive and liquid wastes in containers buried either at sea or underground. But the more potent solid radioactive garbage will be shipped back to the countries that produced it. As for the plutonium produced from the waste, it will legally belong to the country that owns the fuel; whether the plutonium is also returned...
...portray a ruthless director in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz. With what sounds almost like resignation, he admits to being content. Friends say that Lucinda, a Puerto Rican who worked as a TV researcher, has brought a new stability to his life. After six weeks on a liquid protein diet, this former junk-food addict-"I still dream of Twinkies," he sighs-has even lost his famous baby fat. For the first time he is ready to play that "lean and hungry" hero-villain Cassius...