Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behalf of the bourbon drinkers of America I protest. Is this spiritless, chalky liquid more worthy of the presidential accolade than my beloved bourbon-or wine, or beer, or even sake...
This time the trouble was traced to a layer of insulation in the Atlas-D's giant fuel tank (65 ft. high; 10 ft. in diameter). The insulation had somehow absorbed some kerosene-like fuel, which is mixed with liquid oxygen when the missile is fired. Engineers set about correcting the fault, and space scientists got ready to start the complex preflight tests all over again. Scheduled date for the next...
Blood, just as it comes from a donor's vein, is worth more than fine old cognac; but unlike brandy, blood is harmed by aging. Faced with the necessity of throwing this costly liquid away after its effective life of 21 days has passed, a crooked dealer may break the rules and sell it anyway. A fortnight ago, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York alleged that a firm called Westchester Blood Service, Inc. had changed the dates on bottles of expired blood and then sold them to hospitals. It was the first such indictment ever...
...Instead of oxydizing food to liberate energy as earth's animals do, Jovian animals would combine it with nitrogen, and the final product would be cyanogen (CN)2, a gas that is violently poisonous to life on earth. "Jovian animals," says Astronomer Firsoff, "could breathe nitrogen and drink liquid ammonia. Whether they do remains to be seen...
...lets scenery overbear significance. But the sense persists that something serious is going on, thanks importantly to Actor Lukas, who gives a remarkably evocative imitation of the Wise Old Man of Zu rich, the late Carl Jung; thanks principally to Actor Robards. Robards has all the quick intelligence and liquid charm the author wrote into his hero, but he has something more. He has eyes that loom behind the easy smile and graceful chatter with a strangely disturbing expression, the expression of a dying man who sees quite clearly, as his whole life flashes before his eyes, that...