Word: liquidations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among kappa families, birth control has been greatly refined and democratized. Just before birth the father calls in a loud voice to his unborn child to see if it wishes to enter the world. If the answer is no, the midwife injects some liquid into the mother's abdomen, which promptly shrinks to normal size...
...made the most jaded U.S. groan-&-grunt promoter blush. But the panting young women were symbols of a national effort. With free elections, polite policemen and Coca-Cola machines, Japanese had sought to ape U.S. ways. Now the ultimate imitation had been achieved-female wrestling on a mat of liquid...
...planned, the Neptune will burn the same fuels as the V2: alcohol and liquid oxygen. It will also carry hydrogen peroxide, which suggests that, like the V2, it will have a steam-driven pump to rush the fuel into the combustion chamber...
Woodward has already squirted thin liquid streams of the molecules into warm air, in long siken threads. And a transparent plastic film eight ten thousandths of an inch thick has been made from the new material, by pouring solutions of the analog on a frozen surface...
...reader still remain unhorrified? With dry, deadpan irony, Rosebury & Kabat-who know as well as anyone, and better than most, that there are "portentous moral issues involved"-even suggest a design for a convenient-size bottle of death: "Culture preparations of bacteria or viruses . . . might be dispensed, either in liquid suspension or in dry form, in thin-walled glass ampules. . . . To insure the breaking on contact with water, a gas-generating element like those used in fire extinguishers might be included...