Word: tartness
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...major victory that reflected voter frustration with ordinary politics and ordinary politicians, Republican S.I. Hayakawa ousted Democrat John Tunney from his U.S. Senate seat. When the tart-tongued Hayakawa takes the oath of office next January, he will be-at 70 -one of the oldest freshman Senators in the history of the Senate...
...that he hoped it would be a "fun evening. "They ended with bitter exchanges and Senator Walter Mondale calling his opponent a "hatchet man." The debate last week between the two vice-presidential candidates-the first such session in the nation's history-turned out to be a tart and often engrossing display of political theater, a duel between two evenly matched men whose debating skills had been sharply honed during the wars on Capitol Hill. Both Mondale and Dole sometimes articulated the views of their top bananas more concisely and with better effect than Jimmy Carter and Jerry...
...summer job held its own symbolism. Like thousands of other English majors before and since, the young Allen was waiting for somebody or something to make the connection between literature and life. As he polished off his supper on the evening of Sept. 20, 1938-meat pie, milk, apple tart, all for 25?-his besetting question, he recalls, was: What would he write about the following...
...standing and watching, of having the time-of giving ourselves the time-to sit on country porches and courthouse Confederate monuments and on green benches in public parks and tell each other stories, gossip and use words." The conversation is richly spiced with humor in all its forms: tart, loving, irreverent and sometimes unprintable...
...depends on whether the yogurt is made from skim milk or whole milk and what kind of fruit and sweetening is added. "Yogurt is not like ketchup, which all tastes the same," explains Edward Gelsthorpe, president of H.P. Hood dairy. "It can go all the way from a very tart, thick product to a sweet, mild, creamy product, to a drink or a solid...