Word: pungents
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From now on U.S. citizens will drink better coffee-and less of it. Such was the sum & substance of coffee import figures which last week oozed out of Manhattan's pungent coffee district...
...head at a Metropolitan Opera opening, who for years has swung a legal tomahawk around New York courts, terrifying lawyers and citizens alike, has devoted himself during the past two years to writing. He writes a simple, direct, Elizabethan style that soars far above legalese. Its simple, pungent, unlegal merit is that it is as understandable as swearing. That is mostly what...
With these words Britain's Laborite M.P. Aneurin Bevan (not to be confused with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin) last week went to the defense of freedom of the press in Britain. In the same debate in the House of Commons many another pungent word was spoken, for the fact was-and Britain was awakening to it-that wartime freedom of the press in the English-speaking world was now actually, openly and seriously threatened...
...with natives, to write a history of Java, to collect maps, curios, flora, fauna-and finally, against the opposition of his elders, to snatch an island and found a city (at the age of 37) dedicated to free trade, vigorous justice, mixed honor and unceasing labor. This was a pungent man; Britain needed more like him in the East...
...pungent General Pownall would prove to be in his new job, no one could tell last week. Like all men entering on new duties, he was praised. But the only true test would be his performance-the immediate index of which would be results in Malaya, the ultimate index results in all eastern Asia...