Word: liquidates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actions, with their actors, arise throughout France at a sudden random, like bubbles in a boiling liquid, and with as little apparent interrelation. At first, the bubbles are exciting to watch, they come so fast. Soon one bubble begins to seem pretty much like another, for to Sartre, who is less novelist than cut-rate philosopher, it is ideas, not people, that light the doubtful way along the human road. And to Sartre it is the truth as well as the fact that for France the road to freedom led through the abyss of defeat and despair...
...Chicago busesas in otherspropane gas, liquefied under pressure, is carried in thick-skinned steel tanks. The gas moves through seamless copper tubing, in liquid form under its own pressure (eliminating the need for a fuel pump), and is converted into a gas as it enters the carburetor. Chief advantages: the gas sells for one-half the price of gasoline, burns completely, leaving no carbon, is odorless, and runs the motor more smoothly and quietly, requiring fewer changes of oil and less maintenance. Insurance companies consider propane engines as safe as diesel or gasoline...
...weeks ago a retired janitor named Albert H. Grimes was slowly starving to death in Baltimore's Sinai Hospital. A cancerous growth in his esophagus had blocked off the passageway from his mouth to his stomach. He could eat no solids, and only a thin trickle of liquid was getting through...
...mouse could do the drink any harm. With the air of a man about to demolish an argument, the plaintiff's lawyer got up to cross-examine. Would you drink it? he asked. Sure, said Witness Marsh calmly. The lawyer handed him Exhibit One. Homer Marsh gulped the liquid down. "Can't get the mouse down," he said apologetically...
...circular tray; the unsuspecting diner may find himself commencing his meal as often with a grapefruit as with a leek. Worse that that, the circular trays tend to revolve under the slightest pressure of fork or finger; the centrifugal force generated by a hungry student can send sprays semi-liquid food onto his neighbors. A spinning tray can also cause dizziness...