Word: acidity
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...ideas who looks younger than his 42 years and feels that one of his faults as a reviewer is that "I try to find meaning behind appearance, which means that I sometimes do an injustice to a film." While he may at times seem to etch his phrases in acid, he says that "I only make word plays when I'm reviewing a film so dull that there is nothing worth saying about it except in the form of word plays...
...aodai. There was fire in her eyes and in her words. The Diem government would never yield to "perfidious blackmailing attacks," she exclaimed. What about the concern for South Viet Nam's Buddhists voiced by the Vatican? Pope Paul VI is too "easily worried," retorted Mme. Nhu. Her acid remark supplemented earlier comments on the same subject on French television: "As a Catholic, I am only required to believe in the dogmas of my religion and the Pope. The Pope is only infallible when he decrees something ex cathedra. I do not believe that he will put himself...
...guarded Patricio Lumumba metal-processing plant. A raiding party scrambled ashore, took careful aim, and laid down a barrage of bazooka shells. When militiamen returned fire, the raiders made an orderly retreat, covered by machine guns. But they left their mark: gaping holes in the plant's sulphuric-acid and petroleum tanks...
...never identified the drug's ingredients, and both private and Government cancer experts for years refused to give the unknown substance wide trials with patients. Last week the first secret was out: the Food and Drug Administration stated flatly that Krebiozen is nothing more than the common amino acid derivative, creatine, found naturally in the muscle tissue of men and animals, and utterly ineffective in tests on animal cancer...
...Krebiozen was found to match that of creatine. Ironically, Krebiozen is much easier to produce than Dr. Durovic may realize; he uses benzene, in which creatine is highly insoluble, for extraction. Using plain water as a solvent for the process, he might get several hundred times more amino acid derivative from each horse...