Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these two increasingly venerable and vulnerable units met in semi-serious liquid combat yesterday on the Charles to determine bragging rights for the Harvard crews...
This recognition is the source of Lessing's strength. As interested as she has become in grand designs or configurations of enormous powers, she does not forget the here and now. She will still pause for moments of liquid beauty, stop to portray a sliver of the moon reflected in a dusty courtyard pool in Morocco. Shikasta invites argument. There is something unsatisfying about a vision of history that suggests humans could not, after all, help making the messes they have, that their blunders were all ordained by a small tic in the cosmos. But belief in Lessing...
...kind of centaur; the secretary who was born a test-tube baby, and so lacks any sense of human relationships; & couple who determined to safeguard their marriage by subjecting every conversation to a lie detector test; a preadolescent nymphomaniac who suffers from a disease that reduces her bones to liquid; and her mother, whose skin slowly turned to cotton and who was eventually made into a quilt...
Jacob Shapiro, radiation safety officer in the office of environmental health and safety, said yesterday if the Hanford, Wash., dumping site is not open by Monday, his office will stop collecting liquid radioactive waste...
...session at Camp David we flew back to the capital, and in the late afternoon Nixon invited John Mitchell to join Bebe Rebozo and me for a cruise down the Potomac on the presidential yacht Sequoia. The tensions of the grim military planning were transformed into exaltation by the liquid refreshments, to the point of some patriotic awkwardness when it was decided that everyone should stand at attention while the Sequoia passed Mount Vernon-a feat not managed by everybody with equal success. On the return to the White House, Nixon invited his convivial colleagues to see the movie Patton...