Word: acrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shredded bits of carpeting, an acrid smell around the wreckage -like burned-out fireworks -and a greyish residue on some of the bits of the plane all indicated high explosives. Technicians from the FBI and the Douglas Aircraft Co. were summoned, and a crew of 40 men was dispatched to pick up every fragment of the plane, and cart it all back to Denver. There, in a warehouse near the airport, the experts began the painstaking job of fitting the fragments together again...
...members wheeled about the galleries, was an array of the styles that have turned contemporary painting into a seething, uncharted sea of rival techniques, fads and dead-end experiments. They ranged from the surface violence of U.S. Painter Willem de Kooning's grotesque female portraits to the acrid brilliance of German painters like Fritz Winter, still haunted by Klee and Kandinsky. Paint surfaces varied all the way from Holland's Karel Appel, who trowels on paint like a pastry cook slathering on frosting, to the latest French vogue for tachism (staining), where thin paint trickles down the canvas...
...result is hard to read, and harder still to characterize. Yet ten years afterwards, at a time when the spate of war books is slowly drying up. Author Johnston, now an English professor at Mount Holyoke College, has resurrected the realities of war with eerie, acrid pungency...
...most acrid debate of the campaign centers on the unemployment problem. Murphy claims that Herter has slighted the issue, despite the Governor's founding of the State Commerce Department. This agency has brought over 200 new industries into the state and helped account for one of Massachusetts' most prosperous years. The revealing part of Murphy's attack is his inability to offer an effective alternative. He has hazy ideas of improving Herter's Commerce Department and advocates unpracticable suggestions such as immediate revision of the Taft-Hartley Law and a 50-cent increase in the wage minimum...
...stagnant air over the mountain-hemmed area, ordinarily harmless chemicals rise from factory chimneys, auto exhausts, backyard incinerators at the rate of 3,100 tons a day. Under strong sunshine, the chemicals react with one another and with molecules of ozone (O 3 ) to form a low-hanging, acrid pall, irritating to humans and damaging to crops...