Word: tartness
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...strike and the formation of new Women's Liberation groups. In November 1968, she made a speech at Cornell University. "I wrote a paper called 'Sexual Politics,' which was the germ of this whole book. It was a fiery little speech directed at girls, witty and tart and stuff like that-at least I thought it was. I used to listen to it rhapsodically on tape. It needed a job of editing, but at the time, I thought it was glorious...
Kitchen Chair. That was too much for the Russians, who had thus far contributed very little to Peru. They were still smarting from Rumania's tart observation that, in the wake of floods in their Communist country, the U.S. had contributed more help than fraternal Russia. Three days after Mrs. Nixon left Peru, giant Antonov An-22 cargo ships began winging from Moscow to Lima, carrying 100 prefab houses, road-building machines, 200 beds and helicopters to be used in remote areas. On her return flight, Mrs. Nixon had hinted at this anticipated effort: "We're going...
...frequently overdrama-tizes-the tragic preposterousness of all extremism, he is never a cold-blooded satirist. He understands why people do what they do because he understands and respects their passions-or lack of them. A guidance counselor in a New York area high school, he previously brought his tart brand of empathy to bear in Roar Lion Roar, a collection of short stories, and The Steagle, his first novel...
...Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1933 after a dispute with F.D.R. over fiscal policy. Roosevelt was properly appreciative. Some years later, when another official left with less discretion, sending the White House a sharp criticism of the President's policies, Roosevelt returned the letter with the tart suggestion that the man ought to "ask Dean Acheson how a gentleman resigns...
...Hogue and, truth to tell, there is not much more of a plot after that. Cable (Jason Robards) stubbornly battles thirst and wins, discovering a water hole in the desert. He stakes a claim, swears revenge on his two partners (Strother Martin and L.Q. Jones) and meets a tasty tart named Hildy (Stella Stevens), who winds up keeping house at his combination water hole and stagecoach stop. He falls in with an itinerant preacher and whoremonger who calls himself the Rev. Joshua Duncan Sloane (David Warner) and who can spin his clerical collar around into layman's garb faster...