Word: acridity
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...press conference the President was stiff, unsmiling. The morning papers had the text of an acrid exchange of letters between Mr. Roosevelt and his ex-Food Administrator, Chester Davis (TIME, July 5). The afternoons were ripe with the brand-new main bout between Vice President Wallace and Jesse Jones. One newshawk asked: Who was to blame for such bickering...
Biggest blockbuster to land near Congresswoman Luce came from Britain's acrid, American-born Lady Astor (who six months ago bluntly stated her own view of Britain's self-interest as opposed to Russia): "I was horrified . . . appalled . . . shocked. . . . Clare Luce's 'globaloney' is too smart for me. It's like a very stylish and ridiculous hat. . . . Mrs. Luce does not know what the war is about. . . . People who start out to be sensational usually don't last long...
...from the conglomeration of sweaty women, scattered grapes, boiling oil, fur plucked from rabbits' armpits, scissors spattered with mayonnaise, kidneys, and the warble of canaries-out of that whole conglomeration the imponderable and inaugural fragrance of the forthcoming meal was wafted to me, mingled with a kind of acrid horse smell...
...Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb threw three armies around the city. He failed to take it by storm. He then settled down to reduce it by attrition. Early in the siege, warehouses chocked with food enough for three years were destroyed by German bombers. The air was acrid with burning wheat. Gutters ran with melted chocolate...
...this week the meeting was more remembered than the charter. Acrid H. G. Wells had called it "an ambiguous document, full of holes and escape clauses." An American cynic had called it the great est public document since the Republican Party platform of 1936. The simple fact was that the Atlantic Charter had kindled no fires. Most of the fires that had raged in the world in the twelvemonth were made by the enemies of the U.S. and Great Britain...