Word: liquidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welding, krypton for long-lasting light bulbs, and xenon for high-intensity lights such as those used at airports. Even the more common gases are moving into new fields. In the next few months a big food processor will announce that it is flash-freezing fruits and vegetables with liquid nitrogen, which locks in that on-the-vine flavor. Last week McDonnell Aircraft announced that it has ordered eight special nitrogen-cooled chambers that re-create the lonely cold and vacuum of outer space...
These are only a few of the myriad new uses; man also employs the gases to fire rockets, sterilize rooms, freeze ice cream and produce soda bubbles. Food processors use liquid hydrogen to stiffen oils into shortening through "hydrogenation." Steelmakers are taking big gulps of pure oxygen in their furnaces to speed melting. In orbital flights, the astronauts burn liquid oxygen as fuel and breathe its evaporations...
Next morning Cooper was back in his Faith 7 capsule. As he lay on his back, the ten-story-high launch assembly swayed gently. The thin skin of the Atlas popped and clinked with expansion and contraction. Vapor whistled with pitch-pipe tones through the liquid oxygen release valve. Gyros purred-and, to the astonishment of control-center monitors, Cooper's respiration rate dropped to twelve per minute. Astronaut Cooper apparently was taking a catnap...
...Like Sex--the "National Game." All are sung with sparkle and life, with the lyrics competing with the music for attention. No Dunce concert (or record) would be complete without Secret Love, and on this disc the group relates the story [of the sponsored prostitute] with liquid harmony and emotion...
...feature but by the total impression, the bearing, silhouette, posture or some dominating characteristic. In her portrait of Art Critic Frank O'Hara, on view at Manhattan's Graham Gallery last week, the face is painted out. but the man is perfectly recognizable by his peculiarly liquid and languid stance. To Painter de Kooning, each person even has his own light: "One subject of mine has a silvery light that just isn't the same light that falls on others; another has a kind of lavender light...