Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oenanthole and undecylenic acid...
Died. Matthew Mansfield Neely, 83, longtime (almost 25 years) Democratic Senator from West Virginia, onetime Representative and governor whose acid-tongued criticism and flowery eulogies became congressional legends; of cancer., after long illness; in Bethesda. Md. A fiery New Dealer, Neely served (since 1949) as chairman of the Senate's District of Columbia Committee (Washington's "unofficial mayor"). Republican Governor Cecil H. Underwood's expected appointment of a successor to Neely's Senate seat will reduce the Senate's Democratic majority from...
...thinking of her lover; they resent the mistress--she has the capacity, shallow though it is, to be happy. One of the maids has tried to strangle her, and failed; the other tries to poison her, and fails. Both, spilling lines at each other terribly quickly, hurl insults and acid pessimism and gloom--"I am the dung heap on which I grow"--at one another until finally, one of them poisons herself, having commanded the other to offer her the cup. Why such consciously doomed insects didn't commit suicide long ago is never clear...
...right side of his body. How severe and lasting the impairment of his vision would be could not yet be told, or the extent to which other fibers to the frontal and temporal areas of the cortex would take over the functions of those destroyed. The acid test of Congrave's recovery would be months hence, when a member of the chemical engineering faculty brings down his textbooks to see how much he has retained, how much more he can learn...
...City Hall lobby, Journal Editor Gene ("Lucky") Farrell refused to knuckle under. Said he: "They can't live without us." Sending as many as five legmen at a time to prowl City Hall, and eking out their reports with wire-service coverage, Editor Farrell explored in acid detail such practices by inexperienced officials as heavy overpayment for a batch of air conditioners and the "economy" of firing 17 city attorneys and replacing them with 19 at the cost of an extra $13,500. Needling Murray's personal foibles, Gene Farrell even told rewrite men and reporters to drop...