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Word: pungently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the drinks (excellent as always) and the fish chowder (pungent and tasty) had been disposed of, a joyous soul arose and cried, "Is there a Yale man in the house?" The band, cleverly revealed on the balcony, burst into Ten Thousand Men of Harvard." The logic of this was sublime compared with what was to follow...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey ii, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/29/1949 | See Source »

...short, one of those August weeks in which the steam from the soup of day-to-day events gave off a rich, pungent aroma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Human Thing To Do | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Married. Ward Morehouse, 50, the New York Sun's pudgy, pungent drama critic and columnist ("Broadway After Dark"); and Rebecca Franklin, 30, reporter for the Atlanta Journal; he for the fourth time; in Register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 22, 1949 | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...sharp, unexpected punches. The story, based on a poem by Joseph Moncure March, is fresh and honest. Its script, tense as a taut rope, neatly sidesteps the tintyped heroics of standard fight films and concentrates on the rotten underside of the ring and the characters that infest it. Especially pungent is the treatment of Paradise City, a typical overnight stop on the hayseed circuit. Rooting about in this neon-lighted netherworld-in down-at-heel bars, penny arcades, a ramshackle arena and its sweaty lockerroom-the camera turns up an arresting assortment of local plug-uglies. Some of the character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...from the Commissioner's office, and attempting to interview and photograph her under false pretenses. It was an interesting instance of the American' journalistic methods, and for a lot of people, it made the odor of the Hearst tabloid's earlier effort at "exposes" with the Dwyer report more pungent...

Author: By David II. Wright, | Title: Six-Month Fight Ends In Van Waters Ouster | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

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