Word: tartness
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Martha Stewart’s powerful, shrewd character could not be forgiven. Critics called her confidence “arrogance,” her assertiveness “bossiness.” One article called her “a steely-eyed, tart-tongued control-freak executive brought low by hubris.” Another described her as “an uppity, pain-in-the-neck genius.” A letter to the editor in USA Today summed up this attitude perfectly: “It is that smug, arrogant, ‘I’m-above...
...music, though: I came for the food. We began with the fresh fruit salad. It was a nice medley of strawberries, raspberries and grapes, with none of the slimy bananas which tend to ruin fruit salads. My date, Lisa D. Lareau, commented, “Everything has a nice tart freshness...
...stakes are only growing as the situation in Iraq worsens. On Tuesday U.N. Secretary-General Annan was at the White House, being fed a venison chop and fruit-tart souffle, when he was asked ever so politely whether he could just take the whole Iraq mess off the U.S.'s hands. Bush is sticking to his July 1 deadline for transferring power to the Iraqis through a complex scheme of 18 regional caucuses--a plan hatched in November without the U.N. in the room. But Shi'ites are holding out for direct elections, and the Iraqi Governing Council suggests that...
...women who endured slavery in this country, only one wrote a book-length account of her life. Her name was Harriet Jacobs, and her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, has one of the more satisfyingly tart closing lines in American literature. Instead of ending with marriage, she writes, "Reader, my story ends with freedom." But Jacobs' story--and the lives of other women who had been enslaved--did not end with freedom. Nor did their troubles...
Whittlesey uses a variety called Wonderful, which is also in the increasingly popular Pom Wonderful juices. Some devotees are drawn to the juices for their intense sweet-tart taste; others are intrigued by the fruit's supposed health benefits, touted in the drinks' high-decibel ad campaign. "Cheat death," screams one Pom Wonderful ad, while another provocatively states, "It's been around for 5,000 years. Drink it and you might...