tsuwm>>what is my favorite word? pull-ease!

This is just the funniest phrase I have read so far this evening, considering where we are and what we are doing.

I met a new word last month while reading Harper's Magazine.
The word is deliquescence. The word deliquesce means to dissolve and become liquid by absorbing mositure from the air.
Michael Hitchens used it in an unusual way in this article. He wrote" Kissinger now argues, in the third volume of his memoirs, “Years of Renewal”, that he was prevented and distracted, by Watergate and the deliquescence of the Nixon presidency, from taking a timely or informed interest in the crucial triangleof Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus."
Harper’s Magazine
March 2001p.54 paragraph 1




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