Word: causticity
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...last week, every Mexican knew that the foot-&-mouth war was on. Motoring city folk met it on the highways where olive-grey-clad soldiers had set up roadblocks. Cars were stopped while passengers tramped through a box filled with caustic soda-saturated sawdust. Then the cars slushed through a cement tank of the solution. Far & wide over the area of battle* Army planes patrolled, spotting cattle for ground troops. Once found, the beasts were slaughtered and quickly buried. In the costly offensive against aftosa-foot-&-mouth disease-there could be no quarter...
...seemed to enjoy himself most was Maryland's caustic Millard Tydings, who maneuvered the Republicans into a crossfire over the question of continuing the special War Investigating Committee...
...legal career was mainly defending murderers and bandits and frightening district magistrates with his caustic tongue. One magistrate, hearing that Patel was expanding his practice, moved his court to a town out of Patel's reach. In later years Gandhi found in Patel "motherly qualities" that eyes less inspired than the Mahatma's never saw. Today, Patel is coldly pleased when his enemies call him "the Iron Dictator" and "Herr Vallabhbhai." Enemies and friends tell an anecdote of his criminal law days. He had just put his wife in a Bombay hospital, returned to Ahmedabad to argue...
Died. Ernest Boyd, 59, Dublin-born, copper-bearded essayist and critic, famed for his caustic comments on modern manners & morals during the Greenwich Village literary renaissance of the 19203, once known as the most striking-looking figure of Manhattan's writing set; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. With George Jean Nathan, James Branch Cabell, Eugene O'Neill, he founded in 1932 the "literary newspaper" The American Spectator, for three years published the works of the nation's best writers, suddenly quit when he and his fellow editors "tired...
Died. Josiah William Bailey, 73, Baptist-bred U.S. Senator from North Carolina (since 1931), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, fervid champion of States' Rights and one of the most caustic of the anti-New Deal Southern Democrats, onetime editor of the Baptist Biblical Recorder; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Raleigh...