Word: pungents
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...children were registered, moved to western ports, prepared for the voyage into an unknown future by parents who feared never seeing them again, so on the other side of the Channel Hitler's preparations went forward. Sweating and laboring, the gun crews moved their cannon nearer the Channel; pungent-smelling aviation gas was stored for the bombers that would soon roar over the darkened cities; 500-lb., 1,000-lb., 2,000-lb. bombs were brought up to air fields, bombs destined to plunge through the roofs of houses, which always look vacant from...
Last week Dr. de Savitsch, 37, published a swift, pungent account of his adventures (In Search of Complications-Simon & Schuster-$3). Highlights...
...said that though most human bodies are composed of oxygen (65%), carbon (18%), hydrogen (10%), nitrogen (3%), calcium (1.5%), phosphorus (1%), the body of a Frenchman is a simple compound of pepper, garlic, pate de foie gras, common bread and good red wine of the land. The French are pungent people. Little things make them gesticulate wildly and pour maledictions like a flood: a bowl of soup upset, a bus missed, a kiss refused. But big things-the Battle of France, so many of the young men spilling that precious red wine into the soil-makes them cold, determined, grim...
...simple and polyphonic prose, verse of varied complexity, a tragic chorus, lyric refrain and dream device, they have welded a series of bizarre climaxes into a tremendously effective play. Philosophic and graphic elements were so intermingled as to provide the necessary portions of entertainment with a message so pungent. Incomprehensible as that message was at times, it only served as a challenge to dive deeper into the script...
...piquant and pungent as paprika is the music of Béla Bartók, Hungary's highest-browed composer. During the past fortnight, with the U. S. musical season well along in the salad course, many a concert program was well sprinkled with Bartók. Diffident, wispy, grey, Béla Bartók himself was visiting the U. S., for the second time in his 59 years, looking unlike the way his severe works sound...