Word: acridly
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...These acrid and ominous remarks highlighted a comment which Britain's Bevin had made a few days earlier: "Rebuilding the world is far more difficult than waging war, for [in war] there is no compulsion to agree...
Roxas has a strong hold on the emotional Filipino. The vast majority of his countrymen thinks of him as a war hero, not as a collaborator (an opinion emphatically not shared by the acrid newspaper columns of ex-Interior Secretary Harold Ickes...
Bright fire gushed from the 18-ft. wound in the structure's side, reached for the topmost observation tower on the 102nd floor. Gasoline fumes popped in flash explosions four and five floors below. Thick, acrid smoke billowed above & below, soon filled the upper floors...
...best pictures is an early Van Dyck. It was bought through Daniel Katz, an Amsterdam art dealer, and the receipt shows that Göring paid 200,000 marks ($80,000) for it. Hofer estimated the value of the picture at $150,000. There is also a rather acrid exchange of letters in the Göring files between Hofer and a Swiss lawyer, the gist of which is that the Reich Marshal was expected to pay more than he did for a certain item...
...amputated the trunks of century-old lindens, there were soft, green leaves, and they fluttered down and stuck like bright greeting cards on the Russian tanks' hot grey armor. In the gardens multi-hued tulips swayed to the gun blasts, and lilacs offered a faint fragrance through the acrid fumes...