Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times Marches On. Coming with the peak of Christmas advertising, the strike was a bitter economic blow for New York papers. By missing its mid-December Sunday issue, the Times alone lost some $1,000,000 in ad revenue. Characteristically, the Times went on in its role as daily recorder of history. A full force of newsmen under Managing Editor Turner Catledge and Assistant M.E. Theodore M. Bernstein went imperturbably through the task of putting out a paper every day, writing copy and headlines, dummying the pages and then sending the work to the morgue instead of the composing room...
Such jokes did not have to be very funny to evoke bitter laughter from Turks in Istanbul last week. The government monopoly had just raised its prices on state-produced cigarettes, liquor, matches and tea. Premier "Adrian" 'Menderes, who cannot take it when newspapers dish it out. was also proving thin-skinned about satiric songs and nightclub jokes...
...Farm ("A black sheep in a good flock," "a pig," "a snake") have alienated intellectuals outside Russia-even India's Nehru protested directly to Khrushchev. But to assess the book primarily in political terms would be making a major error about Doctor Zhivago and about Boris Pasternak. The bitter criticism of Marxism cannot be missed, and Pasternak obviously wrote exactly what he wanted to write. But he also says: "My novel was not intended to be a political pamphlet. I wanted to show life as it is, in all its wealth and intensity. In the West they always quote...
...impressive accomplishment in Brazil recently inspired President Juscelino Kubitschek to pull out his Portuguese-English dictionary and translate it personally for the local press. Another story of the drought that is starving thousands in northeast Brazil moved Rio's Diario Carioca to comment: "How sad! How true! How bitter that our national disaster and disgrace, which we all knew about and tried to forget, should be reported to the whole world in TIME...
...months were counted in bitter challenges met. Of the 13 short-range Atlas tests, five exploded during flight. In the first attempt on Sept. 18 to go full distance, the missile blew up 80 seconds after launching. But last week's countdown was delayed only 27 minutes for a minor technical difficulty. Running the test and pressing the big button was a man appropriately named for the job: Engineer Bob Shotwell, 47. With great restraint, Shotwell and his 40-man launch team quietly waited in their bunker a full seven minutes after the lift-off before they dared shout...