Word: pungents
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...moment, a pungent-looking persons wanders over and says briskly, "I'm awfully sorry, but you seem to be sitting in my seat." That's all there is to it; no protest, no appeal from this awful fact; just silent submission...
...Britain's fields, like the others, were pungent with the smell of freshly plowed earth. In Kew Gardens photographers snapped pictures of rhododendrons in bloom five weeks before their time. Here & there, jokers were at work. Enthusiastic residents of Scarborough, in a frenzy of excitement over the notes of the first cuckoo, were crestfallen to discover that the trills of good cheer actually came from a toothless street cleaner named Hezekiah Johnson. "I wait until a crowd gathers," admitted Johnson. "Then I go into a nearby park and cuckoo. They all take it in. I used...
...Novelists. Far more ingratiating as a creation of the U.S. past was A. B. Guthrie's The Big Sky. It had its faults of structure, but its characters-Indian scouts and hunters in the early West-were soundly imagined and pungent as hickory smoke...
...Tigers showed the local stands once again what a well-drilled, intelligent, compactly balanced eleven looks like. More than that, the game told a short but pungent story about Crimson grid lacks...
Only the day before, Beaverbrook had got some imperial yearnings off his own chest. For the U.S. Scripps-Howard papers he wrote a pungent evaluation of Britain's status. "The basic cause of our being in the present condition," he said, ". .. is the [U.S.] loan and the conditions under which it was accepted. It provided easy money. It destroyed our prospect of reconstructing our economy on sound lines. These lines entail the development of our Empire potentialities with speed and vigor...