Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transport and radio jeeps. It had special military powers and was especially designed to provide a fast, hard-hitting counter to any pattern of scattered, simultaneous outbreaks that the Communists, or anyone else, might devise. At Bergougnan the Compagnie de Sécurité received a baptism of sulphuric acid, but it won a swift, decisive victory...
When police entered the plant, they were met with a barrage of bottle bombs containing acid, and ball bearings flung by slingshots. The acid fumes temporarily blinded 113 police, but only enraged the rest. Swinging rifle butts, they drove the strikers into the streets. In three hours it was all over. At least 450 people had been injured, and 50 arrested. Said one of Moch s tight-lipped men: "We wouldn't have been nearly so tough if they hadn't tried to blind us." But, for all the fury, nobody was killed...
...steam was used to concentrate boric acid brought to the surface by natural soffioni (blowholes). In 1905 it ran a steam engine and a 20-kilowatt generator. A sizable industry has grown up around Larderello, producing borax, carbon dioxide and ammonia as well as power. Italian geologists believe that the output, both of chemicals and power, can be increased considerably, hence the new power plant...
...Daughter (MGM) dilutes the never-too-potent subacids of J. P. Marquand's socio-political satire into the sort of eyewash that is the chief ingredient of every "woman's picture." Marquand fans may be surprised at how easily the acid lost its effect; most moviegoers are sure to blink unhappily at what is left...
...Them Rant." In Washington's confusion after Pearl Harbor, Stilwell almost got the assignment which would have developed into command of the North African expedition. If the acid of his insecure and suspicious personality had been poured over U.S.-British relations, calamity might have come more dramatically. Stilwell's contempt was not confined to the Chinese government. In his diary and letters he sneered at the British, at Washington, at Mountbatten and at Chennault, who had been in China four years before Stilwell got there...