Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since the French Revolution, the specter of a militantly left-wing government has periodically caused wealthy Frenchmen to dispatch their gold and cash to safe harbors abroad. This year an unknown number of businesses and petits bourgeois have been illegally transferring their liquid assets to Switzerland, Liechtenstein and other countries with strong currencies and discreet bankers. The reason for this unseemly flight of capital was explained by a recent public opinion poll. It showed that President Georges Pompidou's Gaullists and their allies were fast losing ground to the Communist-Socialist coalition in next month's parliamentary...
Behavior is not a liquid that sets like Jell-O into the mold of a building. Yet all building implies some ordering of life. Fine spaces do not "happen"; they are designed, either by consensus over a span of years (like the town plan of San Gimignano in Tuscany) or else by the authoritative work of one man. There is no consensus of the first kind in America: witness the slurping tide of chaotic architectural mutants that passes for an urban experience in any U.S. city. So we are left with the individual architect as form giver: the responsibilities remain...
...natural gas in return for U.S. technological and financial aid, but it will be eight years at best before the Soviets can produce and deliver large amounts to the U.S. Besides, the Soviets want foreign companies to ante up almost all the billions of dollars for surveys, pipelines and liquid-gas tankers...
...precisely T-minus-2 min. 47 sec., the computer should have ordered pressurization of the liquid oxygen tanks in the Saturn 5's third-stage booster. But because two tiny electrical contacts in the computer's miniaturized circuitry did not touch, the signal was not given. That failure was noticed by an alert launch controller, who immediately threw a manual switch that started the necessary procedure. The computer, programmed only to check its own automatic signals, assumed that pressurization had not begun and stopped the countdown...
...appetite for hard, late work, the genius for politics and administration, by which a London tailor's son became the virtual founder of the British navy at the opening of its 250-year supremacy. The full, recurving, sensuous mouth betrays the man of pleasure. But the eyes, the liquid, curious, direct gaze, speak the passionate observer he was, like a "child to see any strange thing," then living it again vividly in recollection...