Word: liquidating
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...square of water, as blue as a banner, a liquid panel like a window into star-space, it dreams, moveless, in the white tile floor. Drawn up against walls patterned less purely with tiles of ochre and green and ruby, naked attendants in breech clouts wait to knead and oil the bathers in the hot rooms, steam rooms, medicated rooms, therapeutic rooms beyond...
...harassed constable phoned that one Herr Horoz, schoolmaster, had begun what he announced as a "six-day speech" in the famed Lustgarten; was pausing only occasionally for a sip of liquid nourishment...
...Some boys at puberty give out a milky exudation from the nipples. At least one grown man is recorded to have suckled a child. In eunuchs the enlarged breasts are composed mainly of fat. Infants frequently exude a milky liquid...
...Harvey Gushing of Harvard (famed author of The Life of Sir William Osier) announced his discovery that the pituitary gland (at base of brain) is regulator of the body's water supply; when the gland's functioning was suspended, all control was lost over liquid secretions...
Statisticians recalled that the population of Berlin is now estimated at 3,804,000, which places the festal gustatory expenses of Berliners at roughly 105 marks a head, including liquid refreshment...