Word: picric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mill and smelter for a dozen years. She combatted the effects of such anciently known poisons as mercury, used by hatters in matting felt and a frequent cause of brain damage (hence, some say, the expression "mad as a hatter"). And she fought ultramodern lethal concoctions-TNT, aniline dyes, picric acid, which stained its workers so yellow that they were dubbed "canaries." She campaigned for ventilation, antitoxic rinses, safeguards of all kinds...
Henry A. Bunker '58 and Harold R. Andrews '58, members of the M.I.T. Rocket Club, were heating ammonium hydroxide and picric acid in an attempt to make rocket fuel. The mixture apparently reached its explosion point, 360 degrees Centigrade, before the students could halt...
...Representatives last week decided to hold an advisory referendum on whether Leopold should return from exile to be King of the Belgians. At week's end the Regent Prince Charles signed the bill. Within 40 days the plebiscite will be held, probably on Sunday March 19. In the picric-flavored debate which preceded their vote, the Deputies had already expressed their opinions of Leopold. The Socialists were most voluble. Shouted young Socialist Deputy Victor Larock: "Leopold is not contested as the king of golf. But he always will be contested as the King of the Belgians." "If the King...