Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that it is under way, the liquidation will not take long. Last Thursday workers at fertility clinics across Britain started taking vials out of liquid-nitrogen storage vats and allowing them to thaw. In some cases, the tiny specks inside--each the size of a pinpoint and consisting of one to four cells--were dosed for good measure with rubbing alcohol or salt water. By sometime next week, it will all be over. About 3,300 fertilized human eggs and potentially viable embryos will have been destroyed...
...city suffered through its fourth water alert in 12 months, the mayor tried to calm the populace by calling a press conference. With cameras whirring, Marion Barry dramatically held up a liquid that residents had earlier been warned by health authorities might kill the tropical fish in their aquariums, took a lip-smacking gulp and pronounced it "D.C.'s finest." Citizens were, of course, happy to see that the mayor was drinking nothing stronger than water, but wondered what could be impairing his judgment so severely that he blamed the media and his very own health commissioner for the water...
...Painted darkly in homage to Manet and preceded by some of the most beautiful head studies in Cezanne's early work, it depicts the stunted Emperaire as a parody king, an "emperor," but with compassion; no mere caricatural impulse could account for the averted gaze and the great, sad, liquid eyes...
...tears are for naught. Odibei turns toward the spirit world and takes care of everything. With the help of a concoction, she manages to hypnotize Ogwama and has her drink a pot of poison. She dies. Uloko discovers his beloved's lifeless body and sips some of the deadly liquid. He dies...
Safe sex may be made safer with dairy. A by-product of whey, the tasteless liquid exuded in cheesemaking, appears to prevent the AIDS virus from infecting cells in the test tube. In the future it may be used with condoms in creams or foams...