Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carrier task force steamed west. In the grey dawn, some 1,200 miles from Tokyo and well inside the perimeter of Japan's outer defenses, the big flattops turned their noses into the wind. From their flight-decks planes rose and headed for Marcus Island, a little apple tart lying on the blue spread of the Pacific...
When one asked how he happened to become a runner, Hagg looked quizzical for a moment, then snapped to his interpreter: "Ask him how he happened to become a sportswriter." Another asked: "What are your duties as a fireman?" Replied tart Gunder Hagg: "I put out fires." He calmly announced that he expected to break no records while in the U.S. because he was past his peak (at 24)-"and that's the time to become a sportswriter, when you're past your peak...
...first real attempt to tell the score in the fog-shrouded Battle of the Atlantic, the committee had revealed this shocking fact: 1,000,000 deadweight tons of shipping were sent to the bottom monthly in '42, the losses outweighing new U.S. and British construction. Knox's tart retort that the committee's figures were compiled from "unauthorized and uninformed sources" was reassuring to the nation...
...Gallery. Cross is tart about some of the Government bigwigs, but essentially kind to most of them: > Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King is "Wordy Willie," but he gets full marks as a statesman and as the ablest rough-&-tumble politician on the North American Continent...
There were dark hints of an investigation of Davis and his OWI. Virginia's tart Senator Harry S. Byrd, who has quietly been looking into OWI's wastebaskets all along, was reinvigorated. Washington news beagles were spending many precious hours tracking down the rare and fragrant rumors out of OWI, whence came smells now overripe, now sulfurous. Each day brought rumors of reorganization, employes' rump sessions, secret caucuses. Many an OWIster was quietly looking for another job. The house might not yet be afire, but it was smoking...