Word: acridly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heroic" suicide bomber of Afula. Boys pelted Israeli military headquarters in Gaza City with stones, then waited for the inevitable rubber bullets. A donkey carcass lay rotting by the side of the road in Jabalia camp. Small boys dragged tires to construct a barricade, filling the air with the acrid smell of burning rubber. A few miles away, the police building stood empty, the morning's expectation of handshakes and smiles all but forgotten...
...With such details, a sports film can appeal even when it is about spring training -- for how many other kinds of contemporary films actually show people working? An athlete's job may be more glamorous and hazardous than most, the payoff quicker and richer, the taste of failure more acrid. But that urge and pressure to do well at work is universal and an honorable subject for films. As Shelton says, "There are real adult issues that come up: issues of triumph and loss and honor and craft...
...acrid, urban stench of motor vehicle exhaust will be attenuated today by the sweet aroma of blossoming flowers at the corner of Bow and Plympton Streets...
...Gulf War had started, Kay was dozing in an armchair at his construction battalion's camp in Saudi Arabia, more than 100 miles from the Kuwaiti border. At 3 a.m. an exploding Scud missile jolted him awake. Before Kay had time to clamp on his gas mask, the acrid smell of ammonia assaulted his lungs, and he watched a whitish gray cloud drift over the camp. Says he: "Right after that, people started getting sick...
Pepsi, to me, was the perfect beverage. Coke was a bit too dry, and Dr. Pepper had too heavy a taste. Its delightful carbon dioxide bubbles tickled the nose and the throat as you sipped it. The mild after taste was just acrid enough to make the next taste that much more pleasant...