Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Traps and trap setters were not even camouflaged. For four weeks three of the committee's Republicans-Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Nebraska's Carl Curtis and South Dakota's Karl Mundt had been leading the committee thorough the bitter history of the U.A.W.'s, fruitless four-year, $10 million strike against Wisconsin's Kohler Co. (TIME, March 17), second largest U.S. plumbing-fixture manufacturer (No. 1; American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. , The three Republicans had long since decided the U.A.W. was at fault to their surprise. Walter Reuther was willing to agree halfway. Mass...
...return from Spain, forced Lleras to reopen the question and agree that unless León Valencia won the approval of a majority of the new Congress, he would no longer be the joint candidate. Now León Valencia is bitter. "If I had not entered the battle against Rojas Pinilla's dictatorship last year," he said last week, "Gómez would still be in Barcelona." He thereupon announced that if Lleras Camargo and Gómez name some other Conservative as the bipartisan candidate, he himself will also run and thus again open the door...
...moral law there is. His act is symptomatic of the great unrest in French consciences today." Other signs of unrest: the French Reformed Church, as well as the Catholic Church, has repeatedly drawn attention to abuses in Algeria. Speaking not only against excessive use of violence there but against bitter anti-Algerian propaganda at home, the Assembly of Cardinals and Archbishops of France said: "Every Frenchman must love his country and be prepared to serve it without hating othe.' countries." Last week La Mission de France, a society of 400 priests headed by Achille Cardinal Lienart, condemned French abuses...
...various points in this book, the reader learns that Graves has "bitter black Protestant blood," inherited from a grandfather, the last Protestant Bishop of Limerick; that at his home in Majorca he writes 500 words a day with a steel nib; that he dislikes Guggenheim fellowships ("When I was young . . . one didn't expect to be publicly supported just because one happened to write unsaleable verse"); and that he likes to test a poet's verboseness by summarizing stanzas in cablese, e.g., Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper": SOLITARY HIGHLAND LASS REAPING BINDING GRAIN STOP MELANCHOLY SONG OVERFLOWS...
...Bitter Lemons is a poignant account of the deepening tragedy of Anglo-Cypriot relations. But it is also much more-a superlative piece of travel writing by an Anglo-Irishman who has long and lovingly rooted himself in the Mediterranean scene. Author Durrell, 46, taps the juice and joy of his Cypriot friends, Greek and Turkish, and his poetic style transforms the Cypriot landscape into a "sun-bruised" demi-paradise...