Word: pungents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stopped first in Nice to bone up on research materials and let some accumulated jet lag unwind-but a Simon faux pas made the brief stopover more eventful than that. Sunning on the beach with Willard C. Rappleye Jr., editor of the American Banker, he expressed in pungent terms his longstanding opinion of the Shah of Iran * who is pushing for higher and higher oil prices and whose nation was pointedly not among the countries that the Secretary would be visiting. Said Simon: "The Shah is a nut." He later explained that he meant the description only in the sense...
...tell his tale, despite the silence imposed on him by the men who had forced him into retirement. This week TIME presents the first of two sets of excerpts from a forthcoming volume of memoirs in which Khrushchev makes good on his prophecy. He emerges as a candid, pungent and uniquely qualified commentator on recent Soviet history...
...court again made clear that no matter what words are used, the state law must first have defined the offense with precision. In North Little Rock, Ark., a policeman had heard one man in a group say, "Well, there goes the big bad mother- cops." Twice more, with pungent variations, the hecklers piled profanity on the policeman. Finally he made arrests. Dissenter Harry Blackmun, joined by Warren Burger and William Rehnquist, dryly related those facts and found that the applicable law had been sufficiently narrowed. But the majority, though it filed no written opinion, sent the case back...
...country of few people, sprung from a harsh red earth that has nurtured pure beauty in twisted forms for eons. The Greek land is adamantine and you might expect it to be forbidding. But you are startled as you walk over stone and dry earth carpeted with pungent herb, faded green leaves and bleached purple flowers, because the land exhales the tolerance and beauty of what endures. Little rain falls, the earth is riddled with rocks that men have been heaving into meandering low walls for generations; the olive trees are strong and timeless but can't escape the battering...
...extraordinary character. I am astonished by nothing more than myself." His goal was to do with his pen what Bonaparte had done with the sword. He succeeded. As V.S. Pritchett says, "His fecundity throbs, his power of documentation, his ubiquity as a novelist are extraordinary. There is the spry, pungent and pervasive sense that, in any scene, he was there and in the flesh...