Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Generals Asked Too Much. During the war, Rossby visited most of the theaters where his meteorologists were sweating out their decisions. Some of the generals and admirals, he noted, alternated between cursing the weathermen and demanding forecasting accuracy that was impossible to supply. Many of their bitterest complaints were not about the forecasting but about the weather. General Patton, despairing of meteorology, once turned to his chaplain: "Goddam it," he shouted, "get me some good weather...
...bitterest books ever written, Candide is also one of the gayest-its razor-edged, wit-propelled story generally galloping at such speed as to make its fantastic pile-up of catastrophes almost as hilarious as they are horrifying. Converting Candide into a "comic operetta" is perforce a major operation. For the whizzing variety of incident must be duplicated by musical, visual, verbal, choreographic variety of treatment. Seldom, thanks to Scene Designer Oliver Smith and Costume Designer Irene Sharaff, has calamity been more glowingly or sumptuously caparisoned; such things as the stage set of Lisbon and the Guardi-like Venetian figures...
...Individual Is Supreme. When Dwight Eisenhower spoke in what his bitterest critics called platitudes, the people understood what his opponents did not: he was indeed the voice of America, speaking the language that America understands and believes. "The individual is of supreme importance," he said. "Government's function is to provide the climate in which those people can work in confidence and security . . . The spirit of our people is the strength of our nation...
Probably the bitterest battle is being fought between Carter's Little Liver Pills and the FTC. Since IQ43 the commission has been after Carter's on grounds that the product is nothing more than an ordinary laxative, with "no therapeutic effect" on the liver. The case has been endlessly dragged through the courts is still unsettled. Last week FTC again demanded that Carter Products, Inc. drop the word "liver" from the brand name. Sample Carter commercial: "Five New York doctors now have proved you can break the laxative habit . . . Carter's Little Liver Pills improve the flow...
...bitterest enemies, he is a publicity-seeking menace; to the casual observer, he seems a harmless buffoon; to the Harvard administration he is an ever-increasing annoyance; to the Harvard student, he is the source of a possible riot; but to the citizens of East Cambridge, he is simply "Al," their friend and protector...