Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faucet of a washbowl, or else refuse to take the painter at his word and run a testing finger along the damp surface until the amount of paint collected on the digit impedes further progress. The result is probably worse than no sign at all, in which case bitter experience with new coats would soon deaden curiosity and remove all friction between the wall...
...pass, by seniority, because of recalcitrant Mr. O'Connor's defeat, faced an unhappy situation. Of three New Deal members of the committee, two went down to defeat like Mr. O'Connor, leaving Mr. Sabath alone. But five anti-New Deal Democrats -including Georgia's bitter Cox and loud Martin Dies of Texas-survived, and four Republicans. With only four vacancies to be filled, Mr. Sabath had little hope of getting a committee that would follow his lead...
Nebraska's "little TVA," a combination of three hydroelectric projects financed by $60,000,000 of PWA funds, encountered, besides charges of bad engineering, much the same sort of opposition as big TVA- suits, injunctions, bitter antagonism from already established power companies. As in the case of big TVA it finally boiled down to how the PWA "hydros" could market their power. The private companies were not interested in pulling the chestnuts out of the fire. Little TVA then considered building its own distributing system, which probably would mean ruin for all concerned. Then Guy Myers entered...
...bitter family feelings were deeply involved in the matter. Jack Martin and his socially minded wife have long been on chilly terms with the other Curtis heirs-Daughter Mary Louise Curtis Bok, Grandsons William Curtis and Gary Bok. Among the trustees who run the Curtis estate, the Boks can always get a majority. The trustees can fire Publisher Martin when Ledger earnings drop below a certain level. That exactly this has happened was reliably reported after a stormy stockholders' meeting three weeks ago. Pink-cheeked Gary Bok, who was delegated as family "spokesman," declined to discuss the Ledger...
Christmas in pastoral Bessarabia is visiting time. This Christmas a bitter, blizzardy Rumanian winter swept down off the Carpathians but the quaint railway cars that spin from Kishinev down to Galatz, Braila and Bucharest were thronged with festive, gaily-cloaked peasants visiting from village to village. East of Galatz two holiday trains sped along the winding, single-track line in a blinding storm. Someone had blundered, for they were running head on toward each other. Near Reni they crashed. For hours the dying lay with the dead in the heaping snow while rescue trains ploughed through from Galatz. Late Christmas...