Word: tarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parcels of land as fast as Don Fabrizio drops them. The cold calculation and hot sensuality of their courtship, as it rages through the century-old rooms of Don Fabrizio's baroque summer palace, is one of the great set pieces of the novel. It is also tart social satire of the sort Faulkner might write about the mating of a Sartoris with a Snopes...
...degree commensurate with the seriousness of the offenses." Tropicana President Anthony T. Rossi admitted that he had ordered cane sugar syrup added to about half of a 400,000-gal. shipment bound for New York "in a moment of weakness and temptation" because the juice was more tart than usual. He added that Tropicana will not contest the five charges in the state's complaint, which could result in suspension of the company's license. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has already informed Tropicana that on May 31 it plans to lift its inspection seal of approval...
...over the possibility of a woman as U.S. President, a New York Post columnist recalled that a Maine constituent once inquired of doughty Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith: "What would you do if you woke up one morning and found yourself in the White House?" Senator Smith's tart reply: "I would apologize to the President's wife and go home...