Word: acidizing
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...movement. Byrne was Daley's loyal hand-maiden--willing to sing his praises more loudly and obsequiously than even the most seasoned of ward-heelers. It was she who helped direct the late Mayor's infamous infiltration of dissident groups. When Daley was alive, she was a terror; her acid-tongued remarks stung any who didn't toe the party line. When Daley died, Byrne, who had made few friends in the Machine aside from the boss, lost it all. Bilandic finally fired her as sales commissioner after she made a desperate publicity-grab by accusing him of "greasing...
Mexico's LÓpez Portillo welcomes Carter with acid...
...battle against acne. Dr Gary L. Peck and his colleagues at the National Cancer Institute reported that they had successfully treated eight men and six women with severe acne, none of whom had responded to ordinary therapy. That feat was achieved with a new oral drug, 13-cis-retinoic acid, which is a synthetic version of all-trans-retinoic acid, a naturally occurring derivative of vitamin A. Applied to the skin, the natural acid has helped relieve common acne. But vitamin A, which is given orally, has been of little use. For severe acne, it is totally inappropriate because...
...support. Three days later, on the advice of his foreign policy aides, Carter changed his mind and ordered the ships to remain on station in the South China Sea. Seldom have the limits of American power or the lack of a strong policy been so obvious. In the acid phrase of Conservative Columnist William Safire, the whole exercise was "the first example of no-gunboat gunboat diplomacy: we showed a naked flagpole...
...glanced over my shoulder to see who was behind me. I expected that it would probably be one of the loons that you grow accustomed to seeing around Harvard Square, one of those hypersensitive geniuses who, instead of becoming Einsteins, had slipped the other way, taking one too many acid trips back in 1965, and wandering around the Square ever since, babbling stray mathematical formulae on the street corners. Maybe it would even be Dryer Man, the guy with the electric hair who likes to sit on those big industrial dryers in the laundromat and get off on the vibes...