Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lampposts, ripped down fences. They smashed statues of Mahatma Gandhi (a Gujarati himself), burned Desai in effigy, flourished pictures of Nehru hung with old shoes as a gesture of despisal. Mobs, sometimes 10,000 strong, stormed police stations, looted Gujarati shops, flung electric light bulbs filled with nitric acid in the faces of police and passersby. Saboteurs derailed trains, hurled stones at buses, set fire to cars...
...Orleans press staged an unprecedented campaign: "Matas and Matas only!" "Call for Matas." The outrage was averted, and in 33 years goateed Dr. Matas raised Tulane's banner high. He was one of the first surgeons to operate behind a screen of sheets soaked in carbolic acid in an effort to achieve sterile conditions, one of the first to use drip infusions (such as sugar and salt solutions) into veins. And he invented a daring operation to open and then stitch together an artery which had developed an aneurysm (like a blister on an inner tube). When Matas retired...
Life with Mother. In Hamburg, Germany, Gerda Thimm, 22, was sentenced to six years in prison for mistreating her husband by 1) dropping acid into his ears while he slept, 2) attempting to slip a razor-blade sliver under his eyelid, 3) putting rat poison...
...them. It remained for television to show that he is almost as good an actor as he is a director. On Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Sun. 9:30 p.m.. CBS), he is first seen in rumpled silhouette and then in full face as he gives a brief, usually acid outline of the night's mystery...
...retorts in the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Researcher Dr. Albert Hoffman was doing a routine experiment when he had a common laboratory accident: somehow, he absorbed some of the fluid he was working with. He became muddled and confused. Four days later, satisfied that the offending substance was lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25), he weighed out a minute dose and took it deliberately. It struck him "like a bolt of lightning." Hoffman had to go home, but he had lost his perception of time and space, and the short bicycle ride seemed like 5,000 miles. "I had multicolored visions...