Word: tarting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tart Suggestion. Revolution or not, the hormone replacement program that Dr. Wilson advocates is designed to deal with a process of nature. A woman's output of sex hormones, which come mainly from her ovaries, decreases with the menopause and nears zero as she nears 80. This would cause little distress if the only function of the hormones was to preserve her monthly cycle of ovulation and menstruation-it would simply mark the end of her fertility period. But some of the hormones, especially the estrogens, fill many other biological needs. They help to keep the breasts firm...
...unnamed hero is swept up in a mass arrest of Algerian demonstrators, taken to an overnight concentration camp in the Sports Palace, and released to go back first to his mistress, a free-swinging Galician tart, and then with his hook and mallet to the old job in the slaughterhouse. Through all this there clings to him "the typical boiled cabbage smell of all immigrants." It is his fault. He clings throughout to a cabbage, the "authentic proof of my innocence and my simplicity"-and of his official guilt. To the police, it makes him an Arab. He loses...
...customers most appreciated was the food, which was classic French cooking. There was no tampering with recipes, as there was no single specialty. For Soule, everything was a specialty, from tasty crabmeat timbale with its light sauce, to the roast duck with peaches, through the tender, flaky strawberry tart. No restaurant served younger partridges, earlier truffles, or more tender asparagus...
...which has no teeth when it comes to dealing with walkouts by public employees, and gives the Government no legal leverage to stop a national strike once a mandatory 80-day cooling-off period has expired. On the other hand, Johnson promised to try again for repeal of Tart-Hartley's Section 14b, the celebrated "right-to-work" clause that allows states to outlaw union shops. He also asked Congress to "improve unemployment insurance" and to increase the minimum hourly wage, probably from $1.25 to around $1.50-still well below the $1.75 wage approved last year by the House...
...vote of 9 to 0, the Supreme Court upheld the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund argument that Shuttlesworth's conviction denied him his constitutional rights. In a tart concurring opinion, Justice Abe Fortas lambasted the conviction as a "façade" for hounding Shuttlesworth because of his leadership of Negro store boycotts. Shuttlesworth may have annoyed the cop, said Fortas, "but a policeman's lot is not a happy one-and certainly, in context, Shuttlesworth's questions did not rise to the magnitude of an offense against the laws of Alabama...