Word: pungently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizenship, Izvestia sent two reporters to a clothing industry convention at Riga (which considers itself "the Paris of the Baltic"). Helped perhaps by the fact that their editor is none other than Nikita Khrushchev's son-in-law, enterprising Aleksei Adzhubei (TIME, Sept. 21), the newsmen got some pungent answers to their queries as to why Soviet readymade clothes are so ill-styled, ill-tailored and ill-fitted...
...tells the story of Harry Golden, editor (The Carolina Israelite) and author of the bestselling Only in America. The stage difficulties involved are immediate and persistent. The adapters really have little to dramatize beyond a genially hard-hitting personality that best conveys itself in the first person, and a pungent egalitarian philosophy of life that seems blatantly pious when acted out. Adapters Lawrence and Lee must, in fact, swell out into two hours of theater what is not only ill suited to the theater, but what even in book form comes off best in ten-minute draughts...
...befitted a king of cannonry, Alfred built a palace (the Villa Huegel), a monstrous Victorian pile of 160 rooms. To avoid drafts, the windows were permanently sealed. Alfred's own den was built over the stables, as he believed that horse-manure fumes stimulated thought. His most pungent effort was the Generalregulativ, a book of rules that established the Fuehrerprinzip at Krupp's a good half century before der Fuehrer. Alfred dictated his workers' lives down to prescribing their off-duty shoes (wooden clogs). His wife took 25 years of the same niggling, then fled. When...
...Some pungent excerpts from the forthcoming Triumph in the West, Volume II of the war diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbroolce, Chief of Britain's Imperial General Staff during World War II, were published in Canada by Maclean's Magazine. Items...
...heyday, the gold-mining town of Deadwood, S.D., nestling in a steep-sided gulch in the Black Hills, was a brawling, ripsnorting oasis of 25,000 people, pungent with gunsmoke and ribaldry. There, in the late 1800s, Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane lived-until that mean coward Jack McCall plugged Hickok in the back of the head as he sat at a poker table in Saloon Number Ten. There Poker Alice, the gnarled old cigar-smoking card shark, fleeced many a dude; and there lived Deadwood Dick Clark, the legendary stagecoach driver who somehow always saved the gold from...