Word: acidizing
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McPhee, who lives in Princeton with his wife Pryde and three daughters, is the author of TIME covers on Sophia Loren, Jackie Gleason, Jean Kerr, Lerner and Loewe, and Mort Sahl. He wound up liking all his subjects, even if his style has acid as well as adulation in it. He certainly likes his beat: "I have so much fun I sometimes feel guilty...
...chest X ray indicated recent changes in the lungs-but again, nothing definite. This and other hints suggested that the anemia might be complicated by a tuberculous infection. So the doctors at once prescribed vigorous treatment with the most potent combination of anti-tuberculosis drugs: streptomycin, PAS (para-aminosalycylic acid) and isoniazid...
...aging faces was sagging and wrinkled. When they came out, $3,000 poorer after about three weeks, their faces were usually pink and unnaturally smooth. But last week Cora Galenti's well-paying fountain was turned off by the law. Its source was a bottle of phenol (carbolic acid), which made the treatment both painful and dangerous...
...progress. But when he discovers the funeral is for him (a grim whimsy of the duchess'), he runs out and is run through by the bully boys. The duchess' crime does not pay: her rival sneaks into her boudoir and sprinkles her beauty mask with some awful acid. The segment ends with the loudest shrieks since Fay Wray met King Kong...
...personality after the dream's defeat. Martha dreamed of power; defeated, she is loud, coarse, a monster of appetite, mostly promiscuous. George pursued the truth but has disenchantedly come to regard it as a mirage. In his dream's defeat, he is a monster of intelligence, detached, acid, playful as a cobra, alternating easily from the deadly serious to the deadly comic...