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.

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

And assembling a courtroom mosaic to portray a capital defendant is like handling nitroglycerin.