Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First thought to be produced only by the prostate gland-hence the name-prostaglandins are in fact manufactured and found everywhere in the body. They are like hormones and appear to regulate a wide variety of basic life functions, from controlling the clotting of blood and secretion of gastric acid to inducing labor in pregnant women. In the future, such chemicals may be used in treating many different ailments...
...avail. European vines, planted by Italian workers at his estate near Charlottesville, soon succumbed to insects and disease. For almost two centuries it was considered impossible to raise in the East South or Midwest-anywhere save California-any vine but the American Vitis labmsca, whose fermented grapes have an acid, musky, "foxy" flavor...
...funniest and most acid part of the book comes when Grant Parke, the clown of the otherwise uniformly self-serious group, meets Paris Green, the local Panther leader...
...estate brokers, store owners, or welfare tenants who want to be relocated. The purpose, as New York Columnist Jimmy Breslin has put it, is to "build vacant lots for money." Charging up to $3,500 or a cut of the insurance money, the torch frequently mixes a brew of acid and sophisticated oxidizing agents to ignite a chemical fire that is all but impossible to trace...
...player, our overall relationship will be improved. Of all Tommy's gifts, that's the greatest." Reggie Smith, the gifted, moody outfielder who bounced around the big leagues on a malcontent's reputation before finding a home with the Dodgers last season, was considered an acid test for Lasorda. Smith had a sterling year at the plate (.307 batting average, 32 HRs and 87 RBIs...