Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the broad shoulders of his Kentish forebears, glittering eyes under dense brows, and craggy features that might have been carved by Gutzon Berglum. Intolerant of lawyers who strayed from the point or became too verbose. Judge Hand sent wayward attorneys scampering back to the facts with an acid query-"May I inquire, sir, what are you trying to tell us?"-or just a furious "Rubbish!"' Once, confronting the ferocious old judge at a Yale Law School moot court, a terrified student fainted dead away...
Novelist Honor Tracy understands Chaplin's kind of reality, as she has amply demonstrated in two previous acid-witty novels. The Straight and Narrow Path and The Prospects Are Pleasing. The grand lady in both of them was Ireland-surprisingly so because the author is herself part Irish. In A Season of Mists, She Who Gets Slapped is a more traditional Irish target-the English landed gentry...
...into the challenging new medium. Commuting between his home in Vence, in the south of France and the famed workshop of the Simon family in Rheims, Chagall first made sketches of the windows, cut out models in colored paper and fabrics to simulate the design, then personally poured the acid on the glass to achieve the precise, subtle gradations of color he sought. "He was constantly correcting, changing," said Craftsman-Collaborator Charles Marq, "asking the impossible which in the end always became possible...
...breakthrough came in 1959 with the isolation of 6-aminopenicillanic acid, which is the hard core of all penicillin molecules. The new Penbritin is the first modification found to be active against a wider range of bacteria...
...chauvinistic trade name of Beecham Research Laboratories Ltd. for 6[D(-) a-amino-phenylacetamido] penicillanic acid. No simplified generic term or U.S. trade name has yet been adopted...