Word: acridity
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...buzzing flies, the acrid, sickening stench made a horrible fantasy that our eyes could not accept. German tank in the road. Close by it were the three charred naked bodies of it crew. Near by, a troop carrier had plunged off the road. Its headless driver was still at the wheel...
Troops from the transports had long since been loaded into their small boats or amphtracks [amphibious tractors] when I boarded a small boat at 7:45 with a brigadier general and his staff. We rode out to a control vessel to await orders to land. By now the acrid stench of gunpowder was strong, even 3,000 yards offshore in the control boat. A pall of smoke now covered the length of the island, obscuring even Mt. Tapotchau. A shell splashed 150 yards off our bow. Said the captain: "I think we are being sniped...
...glistening streets were a writhing mass of fire hoses. Splintered glass lay ankle deep. Gaunt, charred walls buckled in, carrying firemen on extension ladders down with them. The night air stank with acrid smells of cordite, burnt flesh, sweat. Cries of the burned, hoarse shouted commands of the firemen, and thunderous oaths kaleidoscoped into a rumble of sound. The city seemed engulfed in flame. At dawn the rosy glow of the fires gave way grudgingly to a coppery sun, picking its way through billows of heavy black smoke...
Winston Churchill had his acrid say. Said the London Sunday Graphic: "This was Disunited Nations Week in the U.S.A." The Graphic added that real harm was being done to the world-vital friendship of the U.S. and Britain. The Daily Mail bitingly satirized the world-touring U.S. Senators who loosed a flood of U.S. pride and criticism last fortnight. A writer in the Sunday Dispatch laid the blame for the Darlan deal in Africa and the recognition of Italy as a cobelligerent at the respective doors of U.S. statesmen bent on kid-gloving Vichy and U.S. politicians rounding up Italian...
...Congressman came back white-hot mad. The first sign of trouble came from a regular source of trouble: Montana's acid, acrid Senator Burton K. Wheeler. He was against drafting fathers. The issue boiled briefly, but by week's end. under a mass of cogent argument against it and the pressure of heavy fighting in Italy, Wheeler's support faded utterly...