Word: pungents
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Lift for the Hurdles. After touring the Republican strongholds of southern Illinois, Nixon arrived by plane in Davenport, Iowa and got the biggest lift of the week. It was Dwight Eisenhower's pungent political war cry, and Nixon, watching Ike on TV from his hotel room, recovered from a good deal of his gloom. He hurried right out to Davenport's Masonic Auditorium, where a Republican crowd of more than 3,000 had heard the President's speech on big-screen TV. The President, said Nixon, spoke "with great eloquence and conviction tonight. He spoke much...
...evening whose themes move from the cradle to the grave is both folkish and individual. Often it is less folkish than folksy, and at its worst it is cute enough to make J. M. Barrie seem austere. Nor do Corwin's comments help: instead of stressing the pungent and appealing in Sandburg, he hails him for leaving "obscurantism to the esthetes." But it may be that what Sandburg is leaving to the esthetes is poetry itself. Aside from bits of writing that sound like Biblical commercials, Gorwin's commentary is serviceable. Helped by Guitarist Clark Allen...
...provincial Winston-Salem (pop. 118,000), where it employs one in every five workers, is the city's biggest booster and a major contributor to civic drives. From the company's red brick factories and its 22-story limestone office building, the tallest in North Carolina, the quick and pungent smell of tobacco drifts pleasantly over the city...
Eventually, the apparatus was available in the form of a dolphin (rampant), a lion (couchant), or embellished with the "blue magnolia design." ^ In 1900 the Syphonic Closet of the Century was announced. It was clean and decent, but it missed the pungent grandeur of the commode from which Louis XIV announced his forthcoming marriage to Mme. de Maintenon. And it cannot have given its users the satisfaction of the chamber pot, or jerry, available to Britons around 1800, whose interior was limned with a portrait of Napoleon...
...others, for it is hard to see how the febrile excitement and verbal surprise of Justine could have been maintained. In all four volumes, Durrell has created a world peopled by extraordinary grotesques; each book is suffused with love of the ancient city and each is rich in pungent, aphoristic comment on man's fate. Novelist Durrell has very nearly brought off a major project, which-for poetic evocation and determined grappling with big themes-has not been duplicated by any postwar writer...