Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with red liquid that looks like blood. And people
...From under the roof of my umbrella I saw the washed pavement lapsing beneath my feet, the news-posters lying smeared with dirt at the crossings, the tracks of the busses in the liquid mud. On I went through this dreary world of wetness. And through what long perspectives of the years shall I still hurry down wet streets-middle-aged, and then, perhaps, very old? And on what errands...
Time & again he summoned reporters to his quarters. Each time, they ran and lurched through the passageways, expecting a formal press conference, only to find the President wanting nothing more than a few hours of his favorite pastime-poker and liquid refreshment...
Died. Robert Hutchings Goddard, 62, wartime chief of Navy research on jet-propelled planes and first man to fire a liquid-fueled rocket (in 1926), a principle which the Germans adapted for their ¥2; after a throat operation; in Baltimore. Rocketeer Goddard once set a peacetime ambition for his invention:"I believe that a rocket . . . will some day successfully reach one of the planets...
Like light, the ultrashort radio waves used in radar can be focused in a beam, are reflected by solid or liquid surfaces, travel with the same speed as light (186,000 miles a second). But for "seeing" distant objects, radio waves have a great advantage over light: they penetrate fog, clouds and smoke, reach out to far greater distances than the naked eye. And unlike light, radio impulses can easily be controlled to give an exact, automatic measurement of the distance to the detected object...