Word: bitterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drafted and negotiated the Japanese Peace Treaty in a brilliant, yearlong, 125,000-mile performance in which he applied the lessons he had learned at Versailles. "If you use the lash," he said, "if you constrict Japanese economic opportunity, you will create a peace that can only lead to bitter animosity and in the end drive Japan into the orbit of Russia...
...strike issues-chiefly pensions and job security-scarcely sounded desperate or even irreconcilable. But the guild was well heeled and angry, and Sam Newhouse, with the paper closed down, was not taking a heavy net loss from day to day. Within a week the walkout turned into a bitter siege...
...starved households and then sicken and die, of people who hesitate to rescue others for fear of being responsible for the lives they save. The conclusion of each sweetly-sad story is usually damp with tears: Thjodolf ends with its heroine reeling to her bed, where "the weeping came, bitter and burning"; Simonsen ends with its hero on a train speeding away from his loved ones forever: "He wiped his eyes. There must be One Above who decided these things. That must be his consolation...
...Cuba now enters the creative stage," announced Castro. "We must begin leaving behind the bitter stage of executions and punishments." Last week was the first since Jan. i in which not a single Cuban died in front of a firing squad. Castro also seemed more willing to quarrel with the Reds around him. His mouthpiece, Revolution, denounced the Communists for trying "to climb on the bandwagon of the revolution and detour it from the path." Undeterred, a top Chilean Red, Luis Cor-valan, declared: "We must march with the bourgeoisie, and Cuba is the example." While Communists praised the revolution...
...Roof (De Sica; Trans-Lux) is one of the few memorable films produced in almost a decade by the once-daring Italian movie industry. In ailing postwar Italy, cinema was briefly practiced as a kind of social medicine. But the would-be healers prescribed such a bitter pill-neorealism -that the public refused to swallow it; most of the famed Italian films of the late '40s won rave reviews but lost money. In this picture, made in 1956, the ablest of the neorealists-Director Vittorio De Sica and Scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini, who together produced Shoeshine and The Bicycle Thief...