Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agent Blue, whose use has not been suspended, is a solution of cacodylic acid containing 54% arsenic. In Viet Nam, where it sometimes gets into drinking water, Blue spray is used to kill rice and garden crops at a much greater strength than is considered safe for killing weeds...
Fiumara said that the jellies used with diaphragms have no acid pH and can sometimes act as chemical barriers to gonorrhea...
...birth control pill, he said, "has hurt us in the area of VD. The pill increases moisture in the vaginal track and changes the pH of the vaginal floor from acid, which is normal, to alkaline, which is abnormal. The gonorrhea organism thrives in an alkaline medium...
...mind until woolly monsters push through the top of her skull. The artwork in Bogeyman is the best in the series, coming to an uncanny height in the gaunt faces of terminal addicts, particularly a drawing of a boy who has discovered the pusher has given him crystalline battery acid instead of heroin...
...freak holding a lid. The caption reads, "Percy Sibbin makes $500 a week and is always stoned!" Unfortunately, much of the remainder of the comic is more self-indulgent mockery than readable satire. In the lead story, "An Okie from Waskogie," Sodmind Redneck is drinking with the boys when acid somehow falls into his glass of white lightning'. "The Return of Wong" is a Kong-like monster returning to defecate on New York City. The final story, "Pamela," traces a woman of fashion going to the beauty salon and being summarily eaten by a hair-dryer...