Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candidates appeared on the ballots. German-trained political police pounced on opposition party headquarters, took recalcitrants to jail, snapped muzzles back on newspapers. 'Army officers who had enrolled in M.U.D. were demoted; "disloyal" students were flunked. Fear replaced brief hope as the country slipped lack into bitter, sullen acquiescence, with little chance that Salazar would ever make another gesture toward keeping his old promise that his dictatorship was merely a "transition." Salazar, at 57, had now become dictator for life, unless revolt unseated...
Death & Slavery. Of the 18,000 men who went to Amazonia, only a few were ever seen again. Most of these, ragged derelicts, now beg in the streets of Manaus and Belem. Others have staggered home to tell bitter stories of slavery and death. Said one: "The thieving rubber buyers and the mosquitoes were our worst enemies. Those of us who tried to escape were captured and beaten senseless. Those who really escaped were imprisoned in the mysteries of the jungle...
...tired, bitter man, racked with illness that will not leave him, "red gallus" Talmadge stumped the rural counties of Georgia, the "cracker country," hoarsely shouting his paean of white supremacy and fanning the flames of race hatred. He stuck to the back country, because it has always been Talmadge territory, and because he knew that in Georgia it's country units, not popular votes, that win elections. By last night, Talmadge had 249 units in his pocket, with only 206 necessary for election...
...villa near Sao Paulo, Brazil, a bitter man sat down and wrote an angry letter to Czechoslovakia's finance minister. Wrote Jan A. Bata (rhymes with got ya), who once controlled Bata Inc. of Zlin, one of the world's largest shoe manufacturers: "What has become of the glorious Czechoslovak enterprise in ten months of national management? . . . What we gathered in 52 . . . years is on the precipice of bankruptcy...
...hopes for a genuinely effective price control bill have faded once again in the face of amendments to the new bill to exempt oil, cotton, and pulp products from control, the Taft proposal for manufacturer's profits and the delaying tactics of Senators Wherry and O'Daniel. Thus the bitter paradox continues by which the majority of people, who ardently desire the retention of price controls are defied by their elected representatives...