Word: acidizing
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...majority that listed declining morality as a top concern found itself defending a President who most of them believed had committed a crime. Republican lawmakers voted along party lines, over public protest, to impeach a popular President from the opposing party and in the process dissolved their authority in acid on the House floor. The press corps that viewed itself as the public's conscience became the object of its scorn. Hillary Clinton, who for years had been vilified for leveraging the power of her marriage, was extolled for having handled with grace its public ruin and so finds herself...
...predictable ways--the soldier becomes a taxi driver; the "young miss" a miniskirted model--and has all the parts played by the two stars. The casting gimmick, along with the chicly impersonal production (a semiabstract set framed in neon), makes the vignettes seem more facile and obvious: Schnitzler's acid portrayal of sex as the great leveler on a climb up the social ladder now looks more like Love, American Style...
Attention parents: doctors warn that pennies minted after 1982 can be a hazard if swallowed and not excreted. The newer coins are made with zinc. When the metal combines with stomach acid, the result is so corrosive, an ulcer can develop within just a few days...
...juvenile was arrested at the Harvard Square kiosk at 3:30 p.m. on charges of drinking in public and possession and distribution of a "Class B" substance. "Class B" substances include drugs like cocaine and some types of acid...
BAKELITE Leo Baekeland was hoping to create a synthetic shellac when he mixed together carbolic acid and formaldehyde in his Yonkers, N.Y., lab in 1907. Instead he created the first totally synthetic plastic-phenolic resin and changed the world. Some mistake...