Word: acids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspended the ex-President's political rights for ten years on charges of corruption in office. Nevertheless, Castello Branco has tripled the Belém-Brasilia budget to $9,000,000 yearly for maintenance and road improvement. Even so bitter a Kubitschek critic as Carlos Lacerda, the acid-tongued ex-governor of Guanabara (Rio), gives the ex-President his due. "I'm an old enemy of Juscelino's," Lacerda told some road engineers recently, "but if I were judge, I'd absolve him of all his crimes just because of this road...
...Warren strategy, like that of Governor Thomas E. Dewey in New York, was extremely successful on the state level. But it couldn't produce winners in a presidential election; in the acid test of 1948, the Dewey-Warren ticket could not defeat Harry S Truman...
...costly ammonia plant at Lake Charles, where a staff of 71 produces only 350 tons a day. To take full advantage of the need for fertilizers-the world must double its food supply by 1980 just to keep even-the company recently opened the world's largest phosphoric acid plant in Houston, is building an ammonia-based urea plant at Lake Charles...
...pungent author and TV wit, an editorial associate of LIFE whose career collapsed in 1945 when he sank into done addiction, but rebounded to new heights in 1959 with explosive appearances on the Tonight show to plug his bestselling memoirs (Mine Enemy Grows Older), giving voice to his acid appraisals of modern art ("a putrescent coma"), advertising ("an overripe fungus") and people in general ("adenoidal baboons"); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Agena's problems began 368 seconds after launch. At that moment, precisely on schedule, fuming nitric acid fuel began spraying into the rocket's thrust chamber, followed a few milliseconds later by the oxidizer, unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine. Somehow, too much fuel entered the chamber ahead of the oxidizer. The result was a "hard start" of the Agena's engine, similar to the backfire that occurs when gasoline and air ignite prematurely in an automobile engine...