Word: acidity
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...fight for auto freight may get rougher than words. The St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad, which developed the first three-level cars (TIME, Oct. 24), has already run into some mysterious acts of sabotage. Acid dumped from highway overpasses ruined the paint jobs on one shipment of 29 autos and on another of 150. The railroad had to pay $484,000 for the damage. Other railroads have had cars damaged by shotgun blasts or peppered with rocks. To guard the shipments, Frisco's auto trains now carry an extra caboose and an extra crew...
...Britain and Russia sat down after a three-month recess to pursue once again the nuclear test ban that has eluded them throughout some three years and 273 frustrating sessions. As the 274th session began, Western negotiators were in a mood to make every reasonable concession as a final, acid test of the sincerity of Russia's loudly avowed desire to end all explosions of nuclear weapons...
...frolics in a clutter of dead birds, he produced perhaps the most tasteless of all royal portraits. But it was not only his Victorian smugness that caused his failure. Said Critic Eric Newton in the Manchester Guardian: "He was not a good enough painter." He was, added the more acid Geoffrey Grigson of the Observer, "the Great Worst Painter (and Richest Painter) in the whole bad history of the Academy...
...exact technique he employed in U.S.A. Slices of fictional personal histories are wedged between slabs of headlines and impressionistic biographic profiles of real-life movers and shapers. Instead of U.S.A.'s sardonic portraits of such tycoons as Carnegie, Henry Ford and William Randolph Hearst, there are acid sketches of Dave Beck, Jimmy Hoffa and Harry Bridges. Dos Passos' own fictional characters are manikins, but they acquire a certain animation and excitement by being placed on the revolving stage of 20th century social and intellectual history...
...painters use so bright a palette or so bold a brush and still achieve so sorrowful a mood. Purplish blues lie alongside acid greens; reds and yellows vie for attention yet do not seem to clash. Nor do the ragged rhythms of the paintings ever get out of control. Tension mounts in Jacob Lawrence's paintings, but the threatened disorder never takes place...