Word: acidity
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...infrequent occasions when newscasters note that Defferre has delivered a speech, they studiously overlook his critiques of Gaullism. This is especially important since polls show that Defferre, mayor of Marseille, is still unknown to 42% of the nation's populace. Firing off an acid letter to the President, Defferre asked whether his exposure problem might be "because I am a candidate for the presidency." Of course De Gaulle did not reply. Instead, his aides made the blackout official by decreeing that presidential candidates would be allowed only two hours each of radio and TV time, and then only during...
...BELLS OF SHOREDITCH, by James Kennaway. An acid satire of a weak-kneed young Socialist who is down to his last slogans until his wife goads him into trying to copy the big boss, revealing within him a rich vein of pure capitalist...
Actually there is no black magic to the classic French diplomacy so artfully practiced by De Gaulle and his Foreign Minister. Some acid critics sniff that it is simply a matter of submerging broken promises in a torrent of new ones. In fact, it is founded on the time-tested belief that "the ironclad rule of states is to give nothing for nothing." The French have never confused diplomacy with a popularity contest, and this is a point the U.S. has been achingly slow to learn. While the U.S. is busy building up "reservoirs of good will" around the world...
Watson shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Biology for his work with Francis H. C. Crick of Cambridge University, determining the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid...
...more proof that gout is not, as was once supposed, simply the result of high living. In starvation, the kidneys do not clear enough uric acid, which accumulates in the blood, may then crystallize to cause the anguish of gout...