Word: tarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ambassador. Washington was caught unprepared. Five months ago, Joseph S. Farland had resigned with tart words about U.S. foreign aid and cheers from Panamanians for his own efforts on their behalf. Washington had not yet bothered to replace him. Now, at the White House, President Johnson called an emergency early morning conference of top State Department, defense and intelligence advisers. While it was going on, a frantic telephone call from the U.S. charge in Panama informed him that the embassy might be overrun; Johnson personally ordered all secret papers burned. He then sent a seven-man mission, headed by Thomas...
...ESTABLISHMENT. A fresh band of tart and antic young Britons are sinking satirical switchblades into Richard Nixon, Conrad Hilton, the former Lord Home and other biggish names and isms...
...ESTABLISHMENT. A fresh band of tart and antic young Britons are sinking satirical switchblades into Richard Nixon, Conrad Hilton, the former Lord Home and other biggish names and isms. Roddy Maude-Roxby is maniacally funny, and fetching Carole Simpson sings songs of 20th century woe with almost Brechtian detachment...
Santawirja got into the tart trade in 1961 when Indonesia's President Sukarno showed up in Copenhagen on an unofficial visit. Amiably, he rounded up some girls for the visiting entourage. So successful was the venture that he decided to supplement his entertainment allowance by running a fulltime poule hall. He teamed up with a Danish national, assembled a stable of 20 women, took a 20% commission from their $50- to $100-a-night earnings. When police sought to question him, he simply claimed diplomatic immunity...
...sentimental tradition. His chief English hero, rich and handsome Captain Turnbull, observes the battles as a headquarters officer while musing on women and love, is posted back to his cavalry regiment in disgrace when he dares protest the scorched-earth policy. Turnbull's London mistress, a tart-of-gold he had rescued from white slavery, follows him to Africa by volunteering to nurse the wounded: "She was the one the worst cases asked...