Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British heritage, lime juice,* was much in evidence last week when Burmans held their first election under their own provisional government. At each of Rangoon's polling booths stood a bottle of the juice, put there because of rumors that disorderly elements intended to throw sulphuric acid in the ballot boxes. The Burmans figured that the famed antiscorbutic was also the best anti-sulphuric...
...acid was thrown. Communists dashed through the streets of Rangoon in a green jeep, shouting: "Rebellion, rebellion! Rise, rise!" A couple of polling booths outside the city were burned. The only bloodshed in Rangoon occurred when a constable accidentally discharged a shotgun into his foot...
...them had been addicted, for months or years, to lemon-sucking-or to an early morning drink of lemon juice and water. Some patients' teeth were worn down to the gums. Mayo's experts decided that their tooth enamel must have been eaten away by the citric acid in lemons...
...Columbia University's dental college, Dentist Daniel Ziskin has decided that concentrated lemon and grapefruit juice, both highly acid, do indeed soften tooth enamel. (Orange juice, less acid, seems to be safe.) But acid is not the only villain. The real damage is done by brushing acid-softened teeth with a stiff brush or gritty dentifrices. If not followed by too vigorous brushing, drinking diluted citrus juices once a day is perfectly all right, says Ziskin...
...Lynch became a hard-drinking news photographer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the acrid era of flash powder, singed eyelashes and burning lace curtains. "You could always tell a photographer," he recalls. "One hand would be bound in picric acid gauze, and his eyebrows would be burned off." You could tell Slim Lynch by a shapeless cap, a tired-looking overcoat, a cynical stare. He sharpened his camera eye on such famed stories as the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping-and hardened his stomach on raids on rural stills (the newsmen usually split the "take" with the dry squad...