Word: liquidate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, there were strange sights around the Square. A student leaving Eliot House yesterday saw a Coca-Cola truck unloading bottles of freezing Cokes. As the liquid froze, it expanded, and bottlecaps went ricocheting against the walls of Eliot House...
...mortar and rocket fire into Dak Son as they had in the past. This attack, however, was to be very different from the others. The 600 Viet Cong who assembled outside Dak Son were armed with 60 flamethrowers. Yelling and screaming, they attacked the town, shooting countless streams of liquid fire that lit up the night and terrified by its very sight a people who had only recently discovered the use of matches...
...Nicklaus golf clubs, Arnold Palmer golf gloves and Ben Hogan golf shoes; he memorized Gary Player's Positive Golf, watched Dow Finsterwald's Golf Tips on TV, and visited a Sam Snead Driving Range three times a week. He used balls with rubber centers, steel centers and liquid centers, switched from a cash-in putter to a bull's-eye putter to a mallet-head putter. And he still couldn't break 100. "I don't understand it," he complained. "I played worse last year than the year before, and worse the year before than...
...intestines; this condition usually can be corrected by medicine containing dilute hydrochloric acid. Hyperacidity and peptic ulcer may lead to an excess production of carbon dioxide, and hence to flatulence, through the interaction of gastric acid on bicarbonates from the digestive juices. Standard ulcer medicines -antacids in liquid or tablet form-and diet should relieve this type of gaseousness...
Coming Downhill. In the bright sky over California's Mojave Desert, Adams unhooked from the B-52 mother ship that had carried him aloft to 45,000 ft. Then his ammonia and liquid-oxygen rocket motor ignited with 60,000 lbs. of thrust, hurtling him skyward for 80 sec. until his fuel burned out. Seconds before he glided upward to "go over the top" at his peak altitude of 261,000 ft., Adams radioed calmly to report loss of control of the X-15's pitch-and-roll dampers, twelve small rocket nozzles that guide the craft...