Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been awarded the George Medal for "courage and devotion to duty of the highest order." Admonishing reporters not to "make a song and dance about it," Watts reluctantly gave a few pointers on method: "I started knowing that such a small object, to be explosive, had to have an acid-operated fuse or an electric current. Gentle prodding told me which. These letter bombs were all of the electric-fuse type. All I had to do was to find the wires between battery and fuse, snip them and breathe easily. The rest was just routine...
Sweet & Sour. Many months and many diplomatic notes have passed since East and West have met socially in Berlin on any such scale. It is thus only natural that even the sickly sweet flavor of cocktail conversation be sharpened with a little acid. An American official points to a Soviet officer and says to me: "That s.o.b. looked straight through me-and we used to go boating together." A British lady, laboring under the delusion that she possesses a gift for repartee, is asked by a friend why she requires such a preposterously large pin to hold a single rose...
...more subtle definitions. It was first-degree murder if connected with robbery, burglary, rape, sex offenses, the death of a policeman or prison guard, the use of explosives. Repeated use of a slow poison, such as arsenic, would be a capital offense; but a single, lethal dose of prussic acid would be only second-degree murder...
...types of rivers-yellow, white and black. Only the yellow rivers (actually a tawny brown) have fertile valleys. The yellow rivers, of which the Amazon proper is the best example, carry silt, and when they overflow, leave rich deposits on the land. The black rivers are stagnant and so acid that even fish cannot live in them. The white rivers have ceased to serve as anything but drainage canals. Tropic downpours have long since washed away all fertility from their valleys...
...three years, British athletes had gone from bad to worse. They just could not win. Even their race horses got beaten by interlopers from France. Last week, when 275 golfers teed off in the cherished British Open, few Britons had much hope. Their best bet was acid Henry Cotton, now an old veteran of 41. It had been 14 long years since he had cracked a ten-year U.S. monopoly by winning his first British Open...