Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, it was an hour of decision. Time & again APRA's husky leader had been outmaneuvered in the bitter struggle for power between Right and Left. This time APRA's enemies seemed ready for a finish fight. Even democratically minded President Jose Luis Bustamante, who was elected with Aprista votes, had joined the opposition (TIME, May 17). He was governing without a Congress...
...giant was Big Bill Haywood, leader of the Wobblies, who had come to take over-and win-the bitter Lawrence textile strike of 1912. The towheaded boy of 15 was Fred Erwin Beal, a millworker and a striker. Both were to take refuge one day in Russia: Haywood to die there, Beal to live and taste Communism curdling in his mouth...
...plantation bought for him by the Venezuelan government, Steinmetz had raised soybeans, crossbred them. Finally he had a black soybean. He named it Santa Maria. Slightly smaller and softer than the common bean, it has none of the bitter aftertaste of the ordinary soybean. More important, it is chock full of proteins and contains all the known vitamins except C. One kilo is equal in protein to six dozen eggs or twelve pints of milk, items always scarce in the Latin American diet. It is also cheaper than the regular bean: 1.50 bolivars per kilo (45?) instead of 2.50 bolivars...
Dirty Foreigners. Two years of fighting had separated North from South with deep, bitter emotions. When youthful John Dooley, a Virginian soldier, compared the "dignified but most courteous" appearance of his hero, General Lee, with the sullen demeanor of the frightened citizens of Pennsylvania, he simply concluded that the Unionists were as different from the Confederates as another "race of people." So it seemed, also, to Gettysburg Housewife Sallie Broadhead, as she watched Lee's vanguard outside her house. The Southerners were "a miserable-looking set" of alien monsters with a "traitor's flag" who pranced barefoot...
...While the road of social criticism must always be lonely," pontificates glib Pundit Max Lerner in the introduction, "it need not be made bitter as Dante's exile." But Veblen-who was as different from Dante as Bernard Shaw is from Pope Pius-was not an easy man to employ or encourage. His conspicuous love of lechery caused him to be fired first from the University of Chicago, then from Leland Stanford. Hired as an economist by the U.S. Food Administration in World War I, he coolly proposed, says Lerner, "to do away with the merchants in the country...