Word: pungents
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...their own six-month to one-year stockpile of Havana leaf runs out, their $50 million-per-year business will go up in smoke. "I don't know what these people are going to do." said Pedro López, a cigar union official. Looking around a large, pungent room full of hand cigar makers, he added: "Their average age is between 45 and 60; they're not entitled to a pension, and they're too old to find jobs. I think that if they're going to let tobacco through anyway, they should...
...students often use model-airplane glue in construction work in art classes. We have always found the pungent smell distasteful. Now I am afraid that your article has planted the seed of something that we may be unable to control...
Barrels in the newly opened Habana Supermarket sprout stalks of green sugar cane; others are filled with hot peppers, avocados, rice and black beans. Spanish-language newspapers and magazines abound on the newsstands, and the air is pungent with the aroma of steaming black coffee. The sight of Cuban women in hip-hugging skirts and slacks is savored by Latin loungers on every streetcorner. Tickets for the bolita, an illegal lottery, are discreetly sold under the counter. The scene might well be Havana's Prado. But it is actually downtown Miami...
...International Dictionary is that every definition is really new. Instead of thumbnail essays, they run to single phrases. To illustrate new shades of meaning, they include 200,000 quotations that draw on sources as diverse as Variety, Lingerie Merchandising, and TIME (probably the most frequently quoted magazine), along with "pungent, lively remarks" by 14,000 modern notables from Winston Churchill to Mickey Spillane. The old edition brushed off goof as "a ridiculous, stupid person." Now. in amplification, Dwight Eisenhower is quoted as complaining that someone "made a goof." Elizabeth Taylor broadens sick by speaking of "a room smelling rather...
...Forest Hills farm club. Summoned to the weekend White House to give a tennis lesson to Jacqueline Kennedy. Mrs. Hoxie brusquely chivied Secret Service men into action ("What are all of you just lounging around for? Pick up a racket and start hitting some balls") but reserved her most pungent orders for the First Lady. Barked Teacher Hoxie to Pupil Kennedy: "Keep your hair out of your eyes and your eyes on the ball...