Word: violent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find out what they are. Some of the mixtures, especially those containing chlorates and perchlorates, are extremely dangerous. Instead of burning gradually, they are apt to detonate like dynamite. Another dangerous compound is ammonium nitrate, which is sold as fertilizer. When mixed with certain other things, it is a violent explosive, and even by itself it should be treated with respect. The explosion of two shiploads of it wrecked Texas City in 1947, with a loss of 512 lives...
Much of Thackeray's hauteur was put on to conceal the violent, sudden spasms of pain that came from his malfunctioning stomach and bladder. Much was a disguise for his sensitivity and loneliness. The rest was a sort of game. He was proud of being a great gourmet-like his friend Lord Houghton. who died murmuring: "My exit is the result of too many entrees." He was a wit; once he greeted a quack doctor with "a very low bow" and the words: "I hope, sir, that you will live longer than your patients." He tempered the generosity...
...when they would be most wide awake on a normal routine, they snapped out of their stupor to some extent. Most of the students went through spells of laughing for no reason. One was "happy and silly" for 45 hours, then became so depressed that the slightest irritation provoked violent argument. They forgot each other's names or substituted one name for another...
...another $1,500 to legal expenses. The 13 defendants were brought to new trial. This time they were freed for keeps. The legal mechanics: Judge Schoolfield ordered the jury to return a verdict of not guilty because the prosecution had failed to prove that the 13 Teamsters committed the violent acts involved...
Died. Maurice Evans ("The California Comet") McLoughlin, 67, hard-hitting pre-World War I tennis champ, who revolutionized the game :by twice winning the U.S. Championship (1912, 1913) with his big serve, violent overhead smashes and net-rushing tactics (all previously unknown in big-time Eastern tennis), retired in 1919 after a decisive quarter-finals loss to Richard Norris Williams II; of a heart attack; in Hermosa Beach, Calif...