Word: acidity
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...just as I learned that night one rationalization to permit me to ignore the war, those men found out ways, too. And all the nice men and women at Harvard found their ways. Look around you at all the ways-from macrobiotic food to student-faculty politics to acid...
...completely absorbable, non-irritating suture material has been developed at Lederle Laboratories' Davis and Geck Division in Pearl River, N.Y. To create the catgut substitute, which is trade-named Dexon, chemists tested 225 synthetic compounds before they hit upon polyglycolic acid, a polymer or long-chain molecule that is chemically compatible with the human body. They spent four years taming the polymer and learning how to braid it into a multiple-strand yarn of suture size...
When he started his work, Ungar had only the vaguest suspicions about the chemistry involved in this transfer of fear. But after repeated experimentation, he concluded that the message was coded in amino acid chains called peptides, which are small proteins. Finally, he narrowed the search to a single peptide-consisting of a sequence of 15 amino acids-that he named scotophobin, from the Greek words for dark and fear. To check his conclusion, Ungar asked Wolfgang Parr, a University of Houston chemist, to duplicate scotophobin using only off-the-shelf chemicals. The synthetic variety differed slightly from the natural...
...murder scene and that these also did not match any possible sources of wax in the house. The prosecution did not mention this information before the hearing, though MacDonald had maintained from the beginning that one of the intruders had carried a soft, candlelike light while chanting "Acid is groovy. Kill the pigs. Hit 'em again." Then there were the unidentified fingerprints. Though 46 such prints were found-including one in blood in Mrs. MacDonald's jewelry box-none was ever sent to the FBI for a check with its master file...
...while other bands faltered and broke up or became popular successes and set off on the big-money concert circuit, the Dead stayed close to home and worked on their music. They were the source, but their style found outlets in many places. (Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test gives them their due: ". . .-the sound of the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper album and the high-vibrato sounds of the Jefferson Airplane, the Mothers of Invention, and many other groups-the mothers of it all were the Grateful Dead...