Word: acidizing
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Picking up McCarran's remark about a test, Dulles said that since there had been a full investigation of Bohlen and that the President and the Foreign Relations Committee had been fully informed of it, the whole case was merely "an acid test of the orderly process of our Government...
...then Joe McCarthy threw back some acid of his own. He had "definitely established," he said, that McLeod had refused to clear Bohlen; Dulles' statements on McLeod's position were "untrue." Three times McCarthy scheduled meetings of his investigating subcommittee to hear what McLeod had to say. Three times McLeod failed to appear. Someone, said McCarthy, had "ordered" McLeod to lie low until the Senate confirmed Bohlen...
...seem to be particularly valuable for the nutrition of children, provided they can be persuaded to acquire a liking for its somewhat bitter taste." Not so, snapped back a London husband & wife team, Physician Joan E. Bamji and Chemist Nariman S. Bamji:' the stuff has too much oxalic acid...
...Oxalic acid, it seems, is bad because it eats up calcium that the youngster needs in order to grow strong bones and teeth. If the child is getting lots of milk and has calcium to burn, the result may not be too bad, provided the oxalic salts do not rotate the bladder or turn into kidney stones. But if children are not getting enough milk and protein, spinach just makes things worse by cutting down the calcium available for the bones. As for the good things that are supposed to be in spinach, such as vitamin C and iron...
Whetted Knife. Thousands have often wished him dead long since. In his 50 newspaper years, acid-penned Swaffer made so many enemies that he once thought it unsafe to enter the Savoy. He often headed his column: "People Who Are Not Speaking to Me." He started out as a reporter at 16 on the Folkestone Express in his native Kent, joined Lord Northchffe's Daily Mail in 1903 and started a chit-chat column. He quickly learned that vinegar will catch more flies than honey...