Word: liquidations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was only the beginning of it. Under an old and odd Connecticut law, all the liquid and real assets jointly owned by Mrs. McCullough and her husband, a picture editor of TIME, were forthwith frozen: a $2,000 bank account, a piece of property worth about $7,500, their $65,000 house (mortgaged...
Jostling armies of liquid-eyed children still play in its filthy, glass-strewn alleys, its dark hallways, and in vacant lots, where the refuse of generations is packed solid, a foot higher than the sidewalks. Its old men are sad. The young men who haunt its streets by night-callow bravoes with oiled black hair, sharp suits and the melancholy curse of pimples-loiter in knots with expressionless faces, just as they did when Frank Costello had a gun in his pocket and was one of them...
...half-time formation the Dartmouth band formed a beer mug, and then emptied it. The Crimson promptly raised the problem of liquor consumption to a more sophisticated level by popping the cork from a huge bottle of champagne and pouring the sparkling liquid into an awaiting cup. They finished off the whole affair with an ultra-polite...
...felt a warm, liquid pressure at the back of his throat. He tried to light a cigarette and found his hand was shaking and gave up. He could see out the window and across the quad from his chair; it was a gray day with the wind whipping off the river, and the couples were already filing out of the entrys and towards the dining hall gate. There were boys carrying blankets and shorthaired girls brushing leaves from their green dresses. Vag watched them for a minute, then got up and opened his desk drawer...
...minus 3 hours), a truck drove up and began pumping alcohol into the Viking II. Then came men in plastic suits to fill it with strong, corrosive hydrogen peroxide. The last fuel to enter the tanks was "lox" (liquid oxygen...