Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little fighting of any sort was there around Madrid, that correspondents began to hint that the Whites were mainly trying during the bitter winter weather to keep as many Militia in the north as possible while in Spain's sunny south the Generalissimo was rumored quietly preparing a White offensive against Valencia, the seaport to which the Madrid Cabinet long since fled (TIME, Nov. 16). Spunky General José Miaja, defender of Spain's erstwhile Capital, was holding out ably last week, issuing such proclamations as "The people of Madrid will eat their shoes before they surrender...
...Jack Clitheroe (Preston Foster) and his wife Nora (Barbara Stanwyck) are assing in the park when he is summoned to his post as commandant of the Irish Citizens Army. Nora, who has already tried to keep him at home by destroying notification of his commission, sees him out with bitter apprehension. The I. C. A., under General Connolly, captures the Dublin post office...
Eleven prosperous Chinese, arriving in Nanking from Sian, said: "Conditions are deteriorating. Hundreds if not thousands of people have thought it best to leave Sian, even through the bandit-infested countryside and in bitter cold...
...second capped the climax. Pilot Lewis, too hurt to be questioned at length, was quoted by rescuers as mumbling: "There were three or four different voices on the radio and I couldn't make out any of them." This became the foundation for a number of bitter attacks on the Bureau of Air Commerce, operators of the radio beam system. Senator Copeland, chairman of the Senate Air Safety Committee, put the whole blame for recent crashes on the Bureau, demanded that it be reorganized, asked for $10,000,000 to improve safety. Other outsiders, such as Columnist Hugh Johnson...
...sugar his bitter purge, Critic Buck last week addressed these good words to Arizonans: "Arizona has the justifiable reputation of having a very desirable climate and because of this reputation enjoys a most favorable tourist trade. No one wishes to do anything which would interfere with this trade. The safest and surest method . . . would seem to lie in emphasizing the fact (when that stage of development has been reached when one can honestly do so) that Arizona is carrying on a thoroughly modern, well-balanced program for health protection and promotion insuring the health and happiness of its people...