Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nonscientific visitor," said the Los Angeles Bureau's John Koffend, "is bound to get lost, even with a guide, in an atmosphere charged with pi-mesons, v-particles, tyrosinase and halogenated cyclobutane carboxylic acid. His interpreters, the scientists themselves, are willing, but communications are difficult...
...pair struck the Union twice, with home-made bombs of butyric acid, a chemical described as smelling "like a combination of rancid butter and decaying Parmesan cheese...
...real acid test came months later, when Germany sent the whole weight of the powerful, cocky, victorious Wehrmacht charging into Russia. Zhukov fought a battle at Yelnia, near Smolensk, which drove the invaders back 20 miles. It was one of the few successful delaying actions. Stalin's first act of war was to reinstate the army commissars, but commissars were unable to prevent hundreds of Red army commanders, thinking they preferred Nazi to Communist tyranny, from surrendering their arms and their men. Quite a few commissars went over, too. Others, like Old Irregular Budenny, defeated in the Ukraine, beat...
...synthesis of "miracle drugs" earned the 1953-54 prize at the recommendation of the Council of Deans. President Pusey awarded him the $1000 prize for his synthesis of quinine ten years ago, his contributions to the synthesis of cortisone, and his recently announced syntheses of strychnine and Iysergic acid...
Their activities have not been confined to propaganda. Once, three teachers and a headmistress were seared by acid when they tried to resist Red infiltration. A school inspector was shot in the street, and in Penang, where a similar campaign is under way, a school headmaster was murdered. As a result of such tactics, teachers and parents alike have either knuckled under or taken refuge in apathy...