Word: piquant
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...that he would play the democratic game as long as the Communists, along with everybody else, were forced to abide by the rules. At a time when some Communist leaders in France (see FOREIGN NEWS) were deciding they did not like the democratic rules, Tsaldaris' statement had a piquant point...
...Angeles police searched for the person who had killed black-haired Elizabeth Short, then defiled and butchered her body and dumped it in a vacant lot. Friends had nicknamed her the "Black Dahlia," which made the crime more piquant. Portland, Ore. was having a crime wave. Taxi drivers, tired of being robbed by patrons, carried guns. A woman was knocked on the head as she entered her automobile. Murders averaged one a week. Three youths were arrested for killing a sea captain and dumping his body over a cliff...
...Most piquant quote of the three statements came in an interview Elliott Roosevelt got with Stalin in December, which...
...hits the notes on the edge, punching them out hoarsely and exuberantly, soaring up and down in a rapid shuffle rhythm; but the old majestic grandeur, characteristic of those of his profession who were trained where the Mississippi spills into the Gulf, is never lost. He can provide piquant spicing for an ensemble chorus, but when he takes off on his own over the rhythm, the suddent emotional pickup is enough to send chills down susceptible spines...
...McCloskey, whose Irish bellow and piquant beauty had made her, in a few months, the best known yard personality outside of John Harvard, will be the first outside female performer to show before the HDP footlights since...