Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Castle, c. 1829-a gloomy ruin at the mouth of the Thames, painted around the time of his wife's death from consumption-Constable's tactility reaches its extreme. A cowherd and his collie are encrusted blobs, identical in substance to the rocks, the ruin, the clouds; liquid or scumbled, the tossing white brush marks in the sky have a resolutely material quality for which there were no parallels in European painting...
Geophysicists theorize that these plates move like rafts on the partially molten material that surrounds the earth's liquid core. Most earthquakes take place where the plates meet and either slide past or dive beneath or ride up over each other. The majority of quakes-and volcanic eruptions-in Central America are caused by the movement of the Cocos Plate, a section of the Pacific floor that tends to move northeastward and slides beneath Central America at a deep oceanic trench just off its west coast...
Steve Herrell acknowledged that he uses a mix--manufactured by Hood's--but he hastened to explain: "This is not a powder, it's a fresh liquid, delivered four times a week and kept under refrigeration...
...some 2.5 million-at prices ranging from $30 to more than $3,000. Acknowledged to be as accurate as any watch now available-losing or gaining only a minute a year-the digital comes in two basic models: the L.E.D. (for light-emitting diode) and the L.C.D. (liquid crystal display). On the L.E.D.s, the digits light up at the press of a button or, on some models, at the flick of the wrist. The L.C.D. provides a continuous display, but to be seen clearly it must be angled according to the available light...
Dead Stick. Launching the shuttle should be relatively easy. Fastened piggyback style to two 149-ft. boosters and a 154-ft. tank of liquid propellant, the ship will lift off from Cape Canaveral. After separation, the solid fuel boosters will be parachuted back into the ocean, to be picked up and reused. The liquid-propellant tank, jettisoned after sending the shuttle into orbit, will not be reused...