Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Perez came home, the police were waiting. At headquarters, the full, incredible story came out. A bitter, unbalanced man who had lost his left arm in a train accident, Rafael Perez did not believe in God, or doctors, or much of anything else. His first child was named Son of the Sun, and when the baby fell sick with dysentery, Rafael told his wife: "Nature will cure the baby." Son of the Sun died. A year later, Evolution of the World was born-to die soon after for lack of medical attention. When the next child, a girl named...
...filled in byelections this fall. Even if the Republicans won all 21 seats, they would not dent the Democrats' gerrymandered Assembly majority (410 to 170), but a good Republican showing might be an omen for 1961 general elections. Apparently Menderes thought so too: last week, after a bitter parliamentary debate, the Democrats used their safe majority to ram through the Assembly a measure postponing all byelections for a year...
...Wolf Rudiger Hess, 21, conscientious objector and son of convicted Nazi War Criminal Rudolf Hess, now whiling away his life in Berlin's dark Spandau Prison. Young Hess explained that he is loath to put in his legal twelve-month stint in West Germany's army. With bitter Teutonic irony, he enlarged upon his refusal to be drafted: "My conscience forbids me to serve those who judged and condemned my father. Moreover, in performing military service, which might be construed as aiding in the preparation for a next war, I might some day suffer the same unpleasant consequences...
...graciousness is under pressure, she soon discovers. Her father, silver-haired Preston Woodcock III. is juggling martinis instead of balancing the family paper company's books. Her mother is outwardly butter-smooth, inwardly alum-bitter. Her cousin Woody is an effeminate dandy swooning before his hi-fi set, while sister Peggy is briskly infighting for some stock proxies to oust another cousin who "robbed us of damned near every red cent we own!" The Adam in this snaky Garden of Eden is Peggy's husband Barney Callahan. a morosely charming outlander (Massachusetts Irish) who convinces the troubled Barbara...
...like a President. He vetoed some minor Castro decrees, held up others. He favored going slow with land reform. But to Castro, his most maddening act was his denunciation of Cuba's Communists as "criminals" just when Castro was making common cause with the Reds in a bitter tirade against a committee of the U.S. Senate...