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Word: liquidize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is the color of Pasternak's eyes? Brown as on your cover or "liquid, steel-grey" as in the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 12, 1959 | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...Staten Island carried home a beer bucket. His son Tom, 9, tried to sneak a quick swig, soon collapsed, unconscious. The bucket held scalding, near-boiling chowder, and the burn closed young Tom's gullet with scar tissue. Not a particle of food or a drop of liquid could pass through it into his stomach. So surgeons cut into his abdomen, made a hole in his stomach where they attached it to the muscle wall. For the rest of his life, Tom had to feed himself by chewing his food and spitting it into a funnel from which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tom's Stoma & Stomach | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...organic chemist, a saturated fat is one whose molecules have hydrogen atoms at all the points where they can be attached. It stays solid at room temperature. Most vegetable fats are liquid, and unsaturated to varying degrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fats on the Fire | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...Strategic Air Command, fired the first Thor ever launched by a military crew. After prolonged preliminaries and one false start, Bennie Castillo turned the key that started the countdown. With cool efficiency, his five-man team rolled back a hangar-like shelter, elevated the bird, force-fed it with liquid oxygen, sent it soaring in 19 min. after the launch command was given (ultimate goal: 15 min.). The shot traveled the predetermined 1,450 miles over the Pacific, was rated a nuclear bull's eye by hitting within five miles of its target. The Vandenberg shot pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Historic Week | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

After traveling in Italy, Pasternak returned to Moscow without his philosophy degree and began whooping it up as a bohemian versifier. Pasternak, with his liquid, steel-grey eyes, sensuous lips and proud and pensive look, became famed as a ladies' man. He looked, recalls one acquaintance, "like an Arabian stallion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Passion of Yurii Zhivago | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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