Word: tang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signatures were affixed on Dec. 17. Diplomats widely averred that the treaty constitutes a standing bluff on the part of Soviet Russia and Turkey to the effect that neither will join that "union of an economic and political nature," the League of Nations. Diplomats opined that a further tang of bluff is given to the agreement by the fact that mutual neutrality instead of mutual aid is promised between the parties. The more excitable newspapers of the U. S. hailed the agreement as a threat to Great Britain's power in the Near East, especially in Mosul...
...said to be the lowest spot in Switzerland. To harassed negotiators, what could be a fairer haven? Locarno boasts but a single copper thread of telegraph wire to connect it with the outside world. Its atmosphere is not Swiss but Italian. Its climate has not the smart alpine tang of St. Moritz, but the balmy southern lambency of Italian Stresa, just across the lake...
Hongkong. Up to the past week, British-governed Hongkong remained orderly; but, with the conclusion of the Kuo Min-tang-Yünnanese battle, agitators calling themselves the "Dare to Die Corps" (the name of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen's irregulars, who successfully fomented the rebellion against the Son of Heaven) forced the Hongkong Chinese to strike. Absolute quiet was maintained...
...handmaid, prescient foster mother, Aithre was at hand in the seven subtle crises of Helen's life, which crises Scholar White picks out in the poised, sophisticated chiseling of an heroic frieze, so craftily restored that the very air of antiquity moves about the figures, golden with the tang of wine...
...deserted stretch of ocean shore, in an empty house, on a kitchen table, in a glass of milk, stood a shiny spoon. For seven months it stood there, unprotected against the salt tang in the air, the dampness, the lactic acid of the milk...