Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after starting off at a tremendous clip. The middle reels, where any normally intelligent gagman would be clearing the decks for a final smashing boffola, are gummed up by a miserably dull jail routine that talks the audience straight into dreamland. And they sleep right on through to the bitter end. Cary Grant stars opposite Hepburn and is charming and funny as always. Katherine Hepburn has sinus trouble...
...Michigan, four-term Congressman Bartel J. Jonkman (pronounced Yonkman) was defeated in the week's biggest upset. A bitter-end G.O.P. isolationist who liked to refer to ERP as "Burp," Jonkman had always received most of the Dutch vote in the fifth district's "Little Netherlands." This year he did not bother to do much campaigning. His opponent, Gerald R. Ford Jr., 35, did. A Grand Rapids lawyer and onetime University of Michigan football star, Ford had hundreds of volunteers pushing doorbells for him, time & again dared Jonkman to debate his foreign-policy stand. Jonkman refused. Back-slapping...
...defeating John C. Vivian, twice governor and one of the state's most formidable Republicans. A tall, gangling man of immense energy and no side, Nicholson had never before run for political office. Eight months ago he launched a one-man crusade which carried him through blizzards and bitter winter cold to every corner of the state. An investment banker, former Legion post commander, and vigorous internationalist, he will level his chief fire on Big Ed's conservatism and longstanding isolationist record...
...Patton Mouth. Kay survived the torpedoing of the troopship Strathallen to arrive in North Africa a few weeks after the Allied landing. She saw the bitter days of Kasserine Pass. She gave Ike concern because of the "grins, whistles, wolf-calls" which followed her "in this exclusively male territory...
...most memorable of moon festivals occurred in the bitter years when Tartar invaders ruled the land. Revolt brewed against them in 1368. To break it, the alien despots posted guards in the foremost Chinese households. When the feast-day came, families gathered and all went as usual-until mooncakes were served. When the feasters broke into the pastries, they found slips of paper with the message: "Kill the Tartars in your household." All rose in mighty unison. The aliens were driven forth and the peace of the Mings descended on China...