For awhile, women would go down to the acrid-smelling pit and try to pick up a fireman.
Excerpt: The temperature was cool and the air was scented with formaldehyde, that acrid deodorant for the deceased.
The fire had quickly spread to 10 other mats stored nearby, filling the building with acrid noxious smoke.
Johannesburg's early days as a gold-mining town, and the ensuing mass urbanisation, left an acrid legacy in the form of Apartheid.
Reliable or not, the allegations have left an acrid smell in the air.
It took four months to get through the acrid testimonies of both oligarchs, and a further five to get a ruling.
The staircase of the crumbling, concrete housing block was pickled in the old acrid odours - cats, cooking fat, mouldy potatoes.
The next morning when we emerged from the shelter there was devastation all around and an acrid smell of burning buildings.
Likewise, it is argued, smokers take too little care to ensure that their acrid fumes do not damage other people around them.
When peat-bog fires blanketed Moscow and other big cities with acrid smoke in 2010, he took the controls of a firefighting plane on national TV.
RICE'S FORAY into the Horn of Africa left an acrid aftertaste.
The acrid-tasting haze has kept old and young Texans indoors, and left others (such as your tennis-playing correspondent) feeling as though they were exercising while smoking.
Sitting in my office I can easily conjure the acrid smell that took over downtown New York, came through my window, and lingered for months.
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Not long ago, the Red Sox were a team of irresistible scruff-balls, now there is back-biting and snippiness and the acrid vapors of high expectations failing to be met.
Later, after the buildings fell, a cameraman and I cut through the dust and walked toward ground zero, where the sky was filled with fine pieces of glass and acrid smoke.
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