Word: liquidation
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...Remember those perfectly geometric, box-shaped pieces of dessert cake we had every night? One of our favorite pastimes was to doctor them up with creative fillings. We would core out a hole from the bottom into which we could pour salad dressing, cottage cheese or other liquid condiments. We would then sneak these altered desserts back onto the cafeteria counter, and monitor the lucky, unsuspecting recipient...
...Remember those perfectly geometric, box-shaped pieces of dessert cake we had every night? One of our favorite pastimes was to doctor them up with creative fillings. We would core out a hole from the bottom into which we could pour salad dressing, cottage cheese or other liquid condiments. We would then sneak these altered desserts back onto the cafeteria counter, and monitor the lucky, unsuspecting recipient...
...civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, us being the American troops (Fussell among them) poised to invade the Japanese home islands in 1945. Citing ex-Marine E.B. Sledge's eyewitness account of Pacific combat, Fussell writes of Marines "sliding under fire down a shell-pocked ridge, slimy with mud and liquid dysentery...into the maggoty Japanese and U.S.M.C. corpses at the bottom, vomiting as the maggots burrowed into their own foul clothing...
...heroes with indomitable spirits. And so we can turn what might otherwise be unproductive and crushing embarrassment for these young actors into hope. Specifically, hope that one of these celluloid heroes either signs up for an acting class - or, conversely, undergoes some unspecified life-altering experience that gives his liquid brown eyes a glimmer of soulfulness...
...pediatricians' group isn't too fond of those "sippy" cups--no-spill containers with a bite-size spout for drinking. "They're sort of like liquid pacifiers," says Dr. William Cochran, a pediatric gastroenterologist in Danville, Pa., who served on the panel. The cups continually bathe the teeth in the juice's sugars, which can promote cavities and teach kids to turn to food for comfort...