Word: saltier
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...University setting, says one colleague, Dunlop passes himself off as "a plain nuts-and-bolts guy, a common man who knows life in the shop." In a labor negotiation, however, he presents himself as a "Cambridge intellectual and a man of books." In other words, Dunlop will make a saltier Dean of Faculty than Franklin Ford or George McBundy...
...Chicago Sun-Times circled warily, citing Roth's "generous use of the saltier nicknames for our reproductive organs and their congress with one another." In the New Republic, Critic Anatole Broyard tried arch humor, calling the book "a sort of Moby Dick of masturbation." Many newspapers and magazines fell back on tradition, using initials and dashes for familiar obscenities. Considering its usual soberness, the New York Times Book Review surprised its readers by permitting its reviewer to repeat verbatim some of Portnoy's sex-obsessed plaints...
...Desserts. As Parris Island drill instructors go, McKeon had been gentle with the clumsy, eager boots of Platoon 71, whom he supervised as junior D.I. under saltier, tougher-talking Staff Sergeant E. H. Huff. It was McKeon's first platoon after graduation from drill instructors' school, and he aimed to make it the honor outfit of the famed Parris Island boot camp. He encouraged the lads when they shot low scores on the rifle range ("Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it"); he patiently repeated his drill instructions until even the dullest could...
...sometimes been wrong . . . I recall that Mr. Molotov was wrong in October 1939, when he condemned France and Britain as being aggressors and praised Hitlerite Germany as being the peace-seeking country." Dulles threw in a batch of Molotov's own 1939 quotes to make the wound saltier. Example: "It is not only senseless but criminal to wage such a war-a war for the destruction of Hitlerism camouflaged as 'a fight for democracy...
...knocked around the Atlantic from Southampton to South Africa. For O'Neill, the sea was a mystic experience. Some of his best plays, e.g., The Moon of the Caribbees and some of his worst, e.g., Anna Christie, are salty with the tang of the sea, saltier still with the tongue of lonely, hard-bitten sailormen...