Word: liquidators
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...peculiar language of the document was easily skirted by the Germans, who used poison gas to devastating effect in World War I. In April 1915, German soldiers surreptitiously installed 5,730 cylinders of liquid chlorine in the trenches along a four-mile section of no-man's-land near the Belgian town of Ypres. Using a heavy artillery barrage, the Germans were able to shatter the cylinders and release the lethal gas. In a single afternoon, 5,000 French troops were killed and an additional 10,000 were injured. The carnage in Flanders was commemorated in a poem by Wilfred...
...five aborted engine tests so far have been due to fueling problems, specifically in lines that carry liquid hydrogen from ground equipment to the tank. After two of the failures, several hours were required to unload more than half a million gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen from Discovery's tanks before technicians could examine problems. NASA engineers are not certain exactly what caused last week's problem. Said Joseph Lombardo, who oversees the shuttle's main-engine project at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama: "We don't know whether it was a faulty indication or really a malfunction...
...Oprah Winfrey's swift rise to host of the most popular talk show on TV. In a field dominated by white males, she is a black woman of ample bulk (usually over 190 lbs., though she has lost 24 of them since starting a medically supervised all-liquid diet three weeks ago). As interviewers go, she is no match for, say, Phil Donahue, whose program was the obvious model for hers. What she lacks in journalistic toughness, however, she makes up in plainspoken curiosity, robust humor and, above all, empathy. Guests with sad stories to tell are apt to rouse...
Harris said that immediately after the shutdown, the launch team remotely began to make the vehicle safe as it sat on the pad, its tank loaded with 385,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and 143,000 gallons of liquid oxygen...
...large restaurant-style kitchen, just a few doors down the hall from Country Epicure's executive offices, the overpowering perfume of chocolate pervades the atmosphere. A pot of liquid bittersweet chocolate is ready for dipping, coating and adding to recipes. Just inhaling deeply could add something to your waistline. Eight students, most of them youthful, are busy improving their skills at a variety of arcane techniques, such as hand-dipping candy, mastering the vagaries of white chocolate and constructing elaborate chocolate figures, including rabbits, pyramids and even shoes, for buffet- table centerpieces. All have been drawn to Elmsford...