Word: acids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mexico's LÓpez Portillo welcomes Carter with acid...
...support. Three days later, on the advice of his foreign policy aides, Carter changed his mind and ordered the ships to remain on station in the South China Sea. Seldom have the limits of American power or the lack of a strong policy been so obvious. In the acid phrase of Conservative Columnist William Safire, the whole exercise was "the first example of no-gunboat gunboat diplomacy: we showed a naked flagpole...
...glanced over my shoulder to see who was behind me. I expected that it would probably be one of the loons that you grow accustomed to seeing around Harvard Square, one of those hypersensitive geniuses who, instead of becoming Einsteins, had slipped the other way, taking one too many acid trips back in 1965, and wandering around the Square ever since, babbling stray mathematical formulae on the street corners. Maybe it would even be Dryer Man, the guy with the electric hair who likes to sit on those big industrial dryers in the laundromat and get off on the vibes...
...started on Venice Beach, California in 1965-66, where Morrison and keyboard player Ray Manzarek met, and drifted together. Manzarek used to say that he and Morrison would ramble that beach, full of angelheaded hipsters and motorcycles, exchanging organic mescaline for acid; weeping, laughing and drawing strange art in the sand with sticks. They wrote some songs together, and Morrison experimented with the poetry he started writing when he was a film major at UCLA. He read a lot of Whitman, Rimbaud, Sartre, Camus...
...research team led by Elias J. Corey, Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, succeded in its 17-year struggle to synthesize the plant hormone gibberellic acid, the journal of the American Chemical society reported in its December 6 issue...