Word: liquidation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cultivated Hypochondria. It was the "petite madeleine," dunked in tea and then savored, that unlocked the corridors of Proust's memory. "No sooner had the warm liquid, and the crumbs with it, touched my palate, than a shudder ran through my whole body, and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary changes that were taking place." So in Swann's Way, the first part of his seven-volume work, did Proust begin his remembrances. Soon the past was unfolding in his pages: "And once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction...
...taken the drastic step of watering the riverfulls of drinks that will be consumed, they have decided "to save money this year, by going to plastic cups from glass," according to Robert MacNamara, a Boston attorney in the class who's made all the arrangements for the week's liquid refreshment. (One thing, though, that MacNamara probably didn't foresee-and perhaps he never even realized-was the panicky rumor that raced through parts of the class of '71 earlier in the week. Word, it seems, got around that it was the Robert MacNamara who had been billeted in Stoughton...
...string-length heights. It also has scientific and military uses considered strategically important by the Federal Government. Helium has appeared on military embargo lists since before World War I, when the Allies used it in dirigibles.* Today it is used to lift weather balloons, to maintain pressure in liquid-propellant rockets and as a coolant in nuclear power plants. In liquid form, it provides supercool temperatures for laboratory experiments. Thus it seemed a sensible idea when in 1960 the Government, faced with possible shortages of the relatively scarce gas, set up a program to stimulate helium production. Instead, the plan...
...crew ply beneath three oceans without success. But even the failures are captivating. Divers hitch rides on sea turtles; monumental schools of twitching fish gather and separate at every sudden plane of light. The water is like heavy blue air in which natural law is suspended. Time seems liquid, depth and risk meaningless-until Gimbel surfaces too quickly and doubles over with the bends. Above sea level, the film itself wears gills, fins and horns. It is amateurish and even a bit silly, with crises boyishly re-enacted by Gimbel ("I got the liver scared...
...made no attempt to resist arrest for violating city segregation ordinances. Still, in an event which compressed past and future into the liquid nugget of the present, her stand echoed the tradition of subtle resistance that had characterized the efforts black people have made to obtain justice in America-the quiet violence of ground glass in the master's soup-while simultaneously conveying the continuing injustice and simple pain of the present, Rosa Parks had made her point: NO MORE. She would not be moved. It was a supremely tangible expression, as plain and physical as the way in which...