Word: causticity
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Alex's mistake, his caustic father-in-law (finely played by Dudley Digges) tells him, lay in his subscribing to the notion "that bad men are stupid and good men are smart." But the scornful old liberal, who knew better, himself behaved worse. He cynically abandoned his fighting newspaper, sat snorting in the shade...
Message to Dissenters. By statement and implication, Winston Churchill showed that his first & foremost concern was Britain's place in a power-political continent and world. But he did not allay all of the House of Commons' doubt and distrust. Cried a caustic, Conservative M.P. : The Prime Minister is "a Charlie McCarthy for Stalin. . . ." Such complainants failed to grasp the salient fact of Churchill's speech: to the. best of his vast abilities, Tory Churchill was fighting defensively for Britain. At the end of a restive, two-day debate, Anthony Eden completed the maneuvers which his chief...
...Bernard Iddings Bell, in the current Harper's, answers the sanguine who believe that World War II will turn U.S. fighting men into peacetime churchgoers. Dr. Bell, High-Church Episcopalian priest, author of the caustic Church in Disrepute (TIME, Feb. 22), takes no stock in the no-atheists-in-foxholes idea, quotes a chaplain that if the saying is true it is only "because there are few atheists anywhere." On the lack of religious interest among men in the forces, Dr. Bell sides with the realistic fighting-front report brought back by World's Christian Endeavor Union President...
...acridines were the wonder drugs of World War I-but the doctors did not know it. When they were introduced in 1917, surgeons were prejudiced against using chemicals in wounds, because the wound antiseptics then in use were too caustic. But World War II doctors have taken up the acridines again. Last year Major G. A. G.Mitchell and Lieut. Colonel G. A. H. Buttle of the Royal Army Medical Corps used proflavine, now the most popular acridine, on 80 serious wounds in North Africa, reported in the Lancet that "proflavine has proved more effective in controlling or eliminating the infection...
...Russia had caustic words to say against General Draja Mihailovich; the Polish Government in Exile (with which Russia broke relations five months ago); the Allied Military Government; neutral Turkey (by insuring Germany's Balkan flank it is prolonging...