nitroglycerin

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As if those choices were comparably distasteful when, in fact, one is vanilla and the other is nitroglycerin.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023

Roy Scheider leads an international cast as one of four outlaws who accept $10,000 and legal citizenship for the job of driving nitroglycerin on hazardous South American roads to an oil well 200 miles away.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023

And that was before the idiotic failure to call 911 or at least grab the emergency nitroglycerin pill she knew was in the bedside drawer.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2021

Since then, he has kept nitroglycerin pills in his left pocket for pain relief.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2020

He raised the glass and held it up before the brightest lamp, handling it as if it were nitroglycerin.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly