Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...researchers from Eastern Washington State College, wearing oxygen masks to protect them from the sulfurous fumes, made their way through cave passages in a 140-ft.-thick layer of ice and snow to reach the center of the crater. There they found a football-field-sized lake of steaming acid, some of which is leaking into streams fed by the mountain's melting snow...
Traditional metal-detecting devices sometimes fail to spot modern bombs, which often have nonmetallic, acid-filled starters. The new devices that experts are developing include X-ray detectors that can more accurately locate a bomb without seeing it, an electronic sniffer that picks up the vapors emitted by dynamite, and a device for creating an electronic field that could cause certain explosives to emit an identifiable beep. On less exotic levels, officials are considering placing all lockers in a secured area, as Los Angeles did after a 1974 blast killed three people, or banning them altogether, as London has done...
...Died. Hugh Hutton, 78, acid-penned editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1934 to 1969; following a stroke; in Philadelphia. After studying at the University of Minnesota, he worked for a string of newspapers before joining the then Republican Inquirer. In the 1930s Hutton continually lampooned the New Deal, depicting Franklin Roosevelt as a popeyed, apron-clad cook feeding the American people "campaign soothing syrup...
...ceiling papered with crotch shots. Sometimes the hazards are more serious. Because many men fear women will take their jobs away, there is much hostility. One woman apprentice machinist in Seattle was told by men workers that it was safe to put her hands into a container of acid. She did not. Others in the construction trades complain that they have been given the silent treatment for months...
...exhausted and that the truly contemporary artist must orchestrate an "event" out of the materials immediately at hand. In that light, Allott may be seen to have orchestrated the specific mood that precipitated the rape, thus fashioning his own particular happening. On another level, Allott has expressed such acid contempt of his brush-wielding anthropophagi that the rape could conceivably symbolize the crude assault that some sad creature might make on a subject that he is totally incapable of mastering, either through study or craft...