Word: liquidizer
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...sized piece of the skull, then inserts a three-in-one tube, only 2 mm. (less than 1½ in.) in diameter. The tube slips painlessly through the insensitive brain to the deep-lying thalamus. The tube's outer layer is a vacuum insulator; the innermost bore carries liquid nitrogen supplied at -196° C.; the middle layer is for warmed and gaseous nitrogen to escape...
...which the bomb was riding. Until other scapegoats are available, critics can blame 1) the haste with which rocket-launching equipment was thrown together on remote Johnston Island; 2) failure to use reliable solid-fuel rockets (Polaris or Minuteman) instead of the obsolescent Thor, which burns notoriously troublesome liquid oxygen...
Stravinsky built Noah's Ark with flutes, French horns, and thumping timpani that seemed to pound every wooden board in place. He created the flood with wavy strings and the liquid tone of horns and string basses. His storm was disconcerting dissonance...
...nonexistent anhydrous ammonia storage tanks. The ammonia is a gas under normal atmospheric conditions; it must be stored in tanks to keep it liquid. Working with Superior Manufacturing Co., a Texas firm that made ammonia tanks. Estes persuaded a lot of West Texas farmers to go through the motions of purchasing tanks from Superior on credit, taking out mortgages on them, and leasing them back to Estes. Estes conveniently made the lease payments equal to the mortgage payments, so the farmer would not have to pay out any money. Estes explained to the farmers that he needed the tanks...
Died. Northam Warren Sr., 83, pioneer U.S. cosmetics manufacturer, a Baptist preacher's son who first introduced liquid nail polish to the U.S. in 1916; of a heart ailment; in Stamford, Conn...