Word: acidity
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...Acid & Orders. Senators Bridges, McCarthy and McCarran were refueled rather than reassured. Democrat McCarran charged that Dulles had cleared Bohlen despite objections by Robert Walter Scott McLeod, the State Department's chief security officer, who used to be Styles Bridges' administrative assistant. The case, said McCarran, was the "acid test" of whether the new State Department is any different from...
...oval's seats are located on the two tall slopes, most of the spectators can watch the university's football team from reasonably near the 50-yd. line. On the stadium's sloping outside walls, Diego Rivera is now executing a three-dimensional frieze of acid-painted stones. This "sculpture painting" depicts the history of Mexican sport from Mayan handball to gringo baseball...
...analysed by the ministry, proved to be harmless. But the Brittany doctors had spread the word about Baumol far & wide. A village retailer, afraid to sell any more of the stuff, returned a shipment to the manufacturers. A sample was analysed and found to contain a deadly poison, arsenic acid anhydride...
...remote hamlets rolled their drums to bring out the villagers, then solemnly read them a warning about Baumol. Jacques Cazenave, 52, director of the Daney Laboratory and father of two children, was arrested and charged with manslaughter. His explanation: One of his drug suppliers must have sent him arsenic acid anhydride instead of zinc oxide. But the next question on many lips was: how many babies in the eleven months since the death of François Lejeune had been hurt by the poisoned Baumol? Press estimates put the number of dead at 50, the seriously...
...Artist Grosz is not so old that he wants to sit back and retire. He hopes to travel even farther west, do a series on Hollywood picture making, then some paintings of San Francisco. Occasionally, friends ask why he never goes back to the acid caricatures that made him famous. That's easy, says Grosz: "I've found out that I didn't want people to hate me. I wanted them to love...