nitroglycerin

Having acquired some training with nitroglycerin in the Army, he wrongly convinces himself that he has the know-how to effectively blow up a safe.

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

Doctors had been prescribing nitroglycerin for angina and other heart ailments for over a century — including, coincidentally, to Alfred Nobel, who founded the Nobel Prizes.

Before his examination, Haupt went outside and swallowed three nitroglycerin pills to make his heart beat rapidly.

“Being in love was like being on a seesaw where one side contained nitroglycerin,” he writes.