Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul, 6, in a Greenwich Village apartment. But bombs still go off in his head, and he has not stopped fighting Franco. His latest attack: a book of pen & ink souvenirs of Franco's Black Spain (Reynal & Hitchcock; $3.50). As calm and bitter as a cup of etching acid, the drawings are sure to cut deep into democratic consciences...
...conflicting exhortations and frenzied warnings that they did not recognize the old and familiar words of their democratic heritage. Others refused to believe that the U.S. was in an ideological war, though Stalin had made that plain more than a month ago and Churchill had etched it in acid: "What they [the Russian Government] desire is the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines...
...colleague who chided him in the same vein, Morris Cohen had an equally acid answer: "The students are getting information from all of the other teachers. What would you think of a plumbing system with all faucets and no outlets?" It was small wonder that Professor Cohen often inspired more admiration than affection...
Within the box raged a miniature storm of aluminum powder, churned by compressed air. With each breath the miners inhaled about five million tiny aluminum particles. The doctors' theory: aluminum powder forms a coating around silica powder in the air sacs, prevents formation of lung-eating silicic acid...
...many Chinese, all fossils are "dragon bones." Along with tiger claws, bat dung and blood from a brigand's heart, fossils used to be powdered, dissolved in acid and used as a specific for every indisposition, from dysentery to bullet wounds...