Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With as many shibboleths and countersigns as a dime novel, the Beggars have methods as effective as they are penny-dreadful. Routine and deadly are sniping isolated German soldiers, drowning them in convenient canals. "Moffen (slang for Germans) cocktails" spiked with sulfuric acid were served so freely that Germans no longer care to drink in public bars. Other favorites: poisoned pencils to be jabbed into Germans in crowds or the darkness of theatres, strychnine crystals dropped into plates of food from under the fingernails...
Systemic toxics, a small group of gases of which the principal member is hydrocyanic acid, kill by paralyzing the central nervous system. These "nerve gases" have produced most of the Buck Rogers tales of World War II, but are completely impractical for warfare because they diffuse into atmosphere almost instantaneously...
Among all the critics of the Army's semiautomatic Garand rifle (TIME, May 6, et seq.), none has been more acid than the U. S. Marine Corps. But none was more discreet. Marines confined their criticisms to barrack-room griping and a few oblique references at Congressional hearings. Reasons: the Corps is part of the Navy, in many matters is therefore subject to the Navy hierarchy, but the Marines get their weapons and ammunition from the War Department, whose ordnance officers developed and cherished the Garand...
...Turner knew, gastroenterologists do not agree on whether or not ulcer diets should contain orange juice. The juice contains citric acid only in harmless traces, but it might stimulate the stomach to produce a more than normal amount of hydrochloric acid. Because they feared hydrochloric acid, some doctors banned orange juice; others prescribed it to keep up the vitamin C intake. Ulcer patients without enough vitamin...
...results last week in The American Journal of Digestive Diseases. They gave orange juice to 15 subjects, took stomach samples after feeding. At other times they gave the same subjects equivalent amounts of 1) soft toast and tea; 2) rich milk. In all but two patients, the stomach acid averaged 75% higher after the orange juice than after the other diets. It looked as though ulcer patients should get their vitamin C from something else than orange juice. But the doctors were too cautious to say so definitely; they wanted still more facts...