Word: causticity
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...Tested successfully for 14 months in a pilot installation at the Chevrolet plant in Parma, Ohio, GM's process starts with a trap to take dust particles out of coal smoke. Then the gases are routed into a device called a scrubber, where they bubble through a caustic-soda solution; chemical reaction between the SO2 and the soda produces two salts, sodium sulfite and sodium sulfate, that are pumped from the scrubber in waste liquids into tanks. There, lime and calcium carbonate are added. The resulting calcium salts settle to the bottom of the tanks, are removed and buried...
Rather depressing stuff, some may argue. In reality, it is not. This is partly because Storey peppers the play with a fusillade of humor, much of it of the caustic one-upmanship variety at which the British have few equals and no superiors. In The Contractor, as in The Changing Room, Storey reveals himself as a celebrator of communal male effort. The task of playing a rugby game knits the men of The Changing Room together in pleasure and in pain. The task of putting up and taking down the tent in The Contractor is not a stage charade...
...never agreed with the hardening Israeli line on territorial expansion as its only and surest protection. A month before the fighting broke out, Nixon acknowledged that "both sides are at fault" for the failure of a peace settlement in the Middle East. Israel, though dismissing the U.N. and often caustic about the validity of world opinion, is not indifferent to the reactions of others, particularly in the U.S. The proof is its decision deliberately to await an Arab attack rather than to strike preemptively...
Alcoholism landed Lowry in the Skid Row ward at New York's Bellevue Hospital, a searing experience that became the subject of his novella Lunar Caustic. He was also jailed and deported from Mexico, the scene of Under the Volcano, a novel that took ten years, at least four revisions, and the love, patience and help of Lowry's second wife, Margerie Bonner, a former Hollywood actress. Given Day's cool, unenthusiastic and quite accurate assessment of Lowry's poetry and stories, it comes as something of a surprise to find him pulling...
...organize a Sylvia Miles defense fund to pay Simon's cleaning bill -but on one condition. That Miles repeats the performance once a week. ∙ Jean Cocteau said she had the head of a little black swan. "And," added Colette, "the heart of a little black bull." Caustic Couturière Coco Chanel, however, always had the last insult ("Colette preferred two grilled sausages to love; Cocteau was well bred. He had no talent, so he listened"). While stocking the modern woman's wardrobe (the little black dress, bellbottoms, turtleneck sweaters and costume jewelry), Mademoiselle was also busy...