Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard group's program was, in a way, an answer to nervous yells which had come across the Atlantic from Britain. At a meeting of British seamen, acid-tongued Laborite Emanuel Shinwell shouted defiantly last week: ". . . We can still hold up our heads. We can run our ships better. . . . America is not a great maritime nation." Week before, Sir Percy E. Bates, head of the Cunard White Star line, complained that the U.S. was getting set for shipping while British ships were ferrying U.S. troops home...
...time the U.S. Supreme Court had wound up its recent session, Justice Owen Josephus Roberts had written 21 majority opinions - and 53 vigorous and acid dissents. Also, he had completed 15 years of service and had passed the age of 70, when Federal judges may retire. Last week, as he got ready for a vacation on his farm near Chester Springs, Pa., Mr. Justice Roberts resigned...
...Correspondent Franz Weissblatt was ambushed and shot by Japs on Bataan. The bullet shattered the top of his right thighbone. The Japs stripped, spat on and kicked him, then threw him naked into a truck. Seven days later they dressed his wound with mosquito netting soaked in picric acid. That was all the medical treatment...
...Deep Mrs. Sykes. George Kelly's acid portrait of a malicious woman that opens out into a group picture of mismated lives (TIME, April...
Courage & Cracks. Like Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (another Yank contributor) Reporter Bernstein presents his G.I.s with affection, understanding, some acid humor, no glamor. In foxholes and juke joints these free-&-easy democrats bristle with the sour, witty, aggressively individualistic, trigger-quick cracks that make the U.S. warrior incomprehensible (and therefore frightening) to his enemies. With a keen ear for idiom and a deft hand with dialogue, Reporter Bernstein has successfully put the G.I. gripe down on paper...