Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sutherland has just the voice to do the old dames justice. Crystalline, open-throated, reflex-quick, her voice can shower feathery trills on an audience or take perilous leaps with agility and astonishing accuracy. It can trace graceful arabesques of passion or float from note to note with liquid ease. Most remarkable, it does not thin out, as do most coloratura voices, into shrill parody in the upper register. Indeed, Sutherland's upper register is her best: she can soar in full voice to a high E-flat, a fact that she demonstrated brilliantly last week...
...enemy. With a small but audible bang, a cloud of acrid vapor envelops the ant, reducing it to paralysis or trembling confusion. Until recently, the bombardier beetle's efficient defensive weapon was pretty much of a mystery. Entomologists thought that it simply squirted out a liquid that exploded on hitting the air. But in West Germany's Angewandte Chemie, Dr. Hermann Schildknecht of Erlanger University's Institute for Organic Chemistry has revealed the bombardier's secret: it is armed with two genuine cannons, each with a strong chamber for real internal explosions...
Something for the Boilers. Prince's researchers started off from a long-established fact: when it is chilled to -258° F., methane "freezes" into a liquid that occupies only one six-hundredth as much space as methane gas. A Moscow utility plant has for years "frozen" methane to store for peak consumption periods. But no one knew a safe and inexpensive way of keeping methane at such a low temperature while it was being shipped. To solve the transportation problem, Prince pooled resources with Continental Oil Co. and later with Royal Dutch/Shell in a combine called Conch International...
...seven trial runs, a Conch-designed methane tanker successfully hauled liquid gas from a plant at Lake Charles, La., to London, where it was pumped into special storage tanks and fed as a gas into the city mains. The British were delighted-they pay about $1.60 per 1,000 cu. ft. for homemade coal gas v. an estimated 90?for liquid methane. Last week, over bitter opposition from the British coal industry, Sir Henry Jones, chairman of the British Gas Council, which operates Britain's nationalized gas industry, won government permission to spend $50.6 million on facilities to handle...
...shipbuilders for two 28,000-ton methane tankers worth $10 million each, is busily dickering for more frozen-gas customers in Switzerland, Germany and Italy. And even though the U.S. is liberally crossed with gas pipelines, several East Coast and Southern California utilities are studying the economics of using liquid methane to extend their fuel supplies when demand finally overtaxes the pipelines. Convinced that the British deal is only a beginning. Conch boasts: "We can deliver liquefied gas from Africa or Arabia to Japan for no more than it costs to deliver Texas gas by pipeline to New York...