Word: acridly
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Books have weight and texture; they make a pleasant presence in the hand. Nothing smells as good as a new book, especially if you get your nose right down in the binding, where you can still catch an acrid tang of the glue. The only thing close is the peppery smell of an old one. The odor of an old book is the odor of history, and for me, the look of a new one is still the look of the future...
...disturbed in their dining room. They sat at dinner while the firemen fought on the first, second and third floors. The only recognition of the fire was the opening of one window in the first floor lounge in the front of the club to let some of the acrid smoke out. Otherwise there was no sign about the tightly curtained windows that anything unusual was happening inside. The club members continued to come and go, swinging their canes, undisturbed by the mass of fire-fighting apparatus outside. One, more curious than the rest, came out to the door with...
...although my own "off-off-Broadway" production of a crucial, big game mistake won't rank with the devastation of the Webbers or Buckners of the world, I can attest to the bitter and acrid taste of that oft-bandied expression "agony of defeat...
That's not a distinction that will be of much help to George W. Bush. The candidate may eventually survive his Bob Jones dilemma, but the passions aroused by B.J.U.'s acrid exclusivism, which are echoed too in a grim little feud over the next chaplain of the House of Representatives, raise troubling questions about how close beneath the surface some old intolerances...
...MEMORABLE MOMENT] Bob Costas' acrid tone of voice when introducing the show: "This is the single proudest moment of my life...