Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each voter left the polls he dipped the little finger of his right hand into a green fluid. That was to keep him from voting twice. The creation of one Dr. Roberto Finol of Maracaibo, the green dye was supposed to be proof against soap, acid or anything for at least a couple of days. Venezuelans read the inscription on the bottle-". . . to guarantee universal suffrage"-and submitted willingly...
...baiter, Red-baiter, whose radio punditing deals as often with fancy as with fact; Merwin K. Hart, insurance lawyer, author, lecturer, admirer of Franco's Spain and scorner of the word "democracy," who once declared: "Tougher products result from a Fascist education"; John T. Flynn, writer, vitriolic and acid-tongued spearhead of the prewar, now defunct, America First Committee...
...millions of housewives did the same; wool producers (to whom soap is a major necessity) lamented: "No woolens." For want of glycerine, a by-product of animal fats, General Electric could not get the lacquer it needed to finish thousands of refrigerators. For want of industrial soap and stearic acid, all synthetic rubber production in Akron was expected to drop sharply in November, stop completely in December...
...wasn't until after I had read this that I realized how bad my eyesight had become. I promptly went to see a doctor who found I had perfect vision but recommended a pink boric acid eyewash morning and night. He also gave me some medicine for my liver, which had become enlarged and inflamed due to too much riding over Donbas roads...
...hotel owners for more taxes, butts his head against the steady advance of tourist commercialism which he fears will destroy Ste. Adele's joie de vivre. No one in the Laurentians hates city life more than Claude-Henri. For 15 years he was a failure in Montreal, writing acid critiques and a bad book. Then he returned to his birthplace, Ste. Adèle, to set forth in a monthly pamphlet his views on almost everything. Since his views are never tame, he offended nearly everyone. Finally, he wrote a short novel, and the radio adaptation, begun...