Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doing so, she has wound fact into such a mess of taffy prose that there is no tasting the original flavor of the personalities. Luckily for the reader who wants to know what really happened, Historian R. Gerald McMurtry, who is an instructor and director of Lincolniana at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tenn., retells the unadorned facts in an "appendix" which is almost as long as and far better than Olive Carruthers' novel. It reprints a letter Lincoln wrote in 1838, which tells his version of the story...
...Solomon Rabinowitch died in The Bronx. He left a massive literature: 300 short stories, five novels, four plays, innumerable articles. Last week, 30 years after his death, the English-reading world got its first wide sampling of the stories. Translators Butwin caution that the flavor of all 27 stories in The Old Country is weakened by translation. Even so, they taste pretty strong...
...forced to shade the quality of its offerings. Tutorial, in many departments, is a memory; classes are too big and growing bigger; section men are scarce and overloaded; crowding in the Houses has cramped their ability to function as leisurely intellectual incubators. However nourishing the menu may remain, its flavor has grown noticeably flat...
...hollow a place during the fall term as it had been from 1943 on. The turning point came on the warm autumn day of Friday, February 1, when 1200 veterans, new Harvardmen and old, marched through Memorial Hall, bought their combined SERVICE NEWS-CRIMSON subscriptions, and added new flavor to a stale Cantab brew...
Everything in Sardinia tasted of locust. A sickly, bitterish flavor permeated milk, cheese and beef from cattle that had crunched the pests with their fodder. (Last year several peasants, after losing their crops, then tasting locust for weeks, went...