Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a natural drama in the making of steel--in the forging of iron and in the construction of huge blast furnaces--and MGM has taken this industrial drama, fused it with a bitter strife between labor and capital, added a touch of intra-family warfare, and come up with an effective, if overlong, adaptation of Marcia Davenport's best-seller, "The Valley of Decision...
Akron's troubles stemmed ostensibly from deadlocked contract negotiations. But they were also compounded of more inflammatory stuff-old resentments, a bitter intra-union feud between United Rubber Workers' President Sherman Dalrymple (who wanted no strike) and locals which had repudiated the no-strike pledge...
...delegates sat down at banquet tables. When speeches began, not a voice spoke up for the militarists. Instead came a barrage of bitter denunciations. Leader after leader lambasted Perón and his Government. The worst blow came from Brother Eduardo Teisaire, who cried: "There are no Argentines in Government House...
National holiday or no, banks and stores stayed open in Vicksburg. Firecrackers never popped, skyrockets never tore the night sky. Instead, the story of the black day was passed on from fathers to children, who could see the cannon balls imbedded in Vicksburg's old courthouse. These bitter memories persisted...
Born. To John O'Hara, 40, writer of idiomatic, bitter-patter stories of U.S. life (Appointment in Samarra, Pal Joey), and his second wife, Belle Wylie O'Hara, 32: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Wylie. Weight...