Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dawn seeped over Manhattan. The Dewey headquarters, which Republicans had expected to be the scene of a joyous celebration, was a shambles. Twenty exhausted bitter-enders slumped amidst the overturned chairs, crumpled newspapers, and half-empty highball glasses full of cigarette butts. The last chance now rested with Illinois and Ohio...
...success on Broadway in 1927. It is somewhat in the vein of his "Idiot's Delight" in that it has a comic situation set in a period of history which allows Mr. Sherwood to work in some of his anti-war feelings. It is not as forceful, bitter, or integrated as was "Idiot's Delight," nor is it as funny. Furthermore, while it shows no signs of old age, neither does it show reasons for revival...
Plievier's setting is the area around Stalingrad, where Field Marshal von Paulus and his 330,000 men of the German Sixth Army were ordered to fight to the bitter end-and nearly half were obliterated in the space of seven weeks. Plievier describes, with ruthless exactness, just how they were obliterated-how snow and ice shattered their limbs like dry wood, how they starved on dried peas and hot water while suffering horribly from dysentery and typhus, how they committed suicide and fell under fire, until after ten weeks only some 50,000 human wrecks remained able...
Then the Jayvees took over, running from the Crusaders' "T" formation for almost another hour against bitter Varsity resistance. But the simulation was not quite perfect, according to Scout Bill Barkley's reports. The real Holy Cross line will outweigh the Crimson 15 pounds per man, and fullback Veto Kissell is a young monster as a line bucker. He has been averaging five yards per play. Holy Cross varies its power routine with a strong passing attack from quarterback Walt Brennan to ends Tom Kelleher and Jim Dieckelman...
Normally, the Democratic candidate in Tennessee would be a shoo-in. But this year, the defeat of boss Ed Crump's machine has split the party into bitter halves, and the Republicans have coincidentally emerged with one of the most dubiously-colorful attractions to grace GOP politics in the South since Reconstruction days. This character is Roy ("Ah don't know nothin' about polities"). Acuff, the Bing Crosby of commercial hillbillyism, whose nasal crooning and asserted stunts have drawn huge crowds all over the state. Acuff is running for governor on the GOP ticket, but his immense popularity may drag...