Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the bitter jurisdictional battles of the 19305, Beck's teamsters also gathered a force of "goons"-hefty, beer-guzzling musclemen who wore heavy shoes for kicks to the groin and fought with baseball bats, fists, rocks or whatever other weapons came to hand...
After twelve days of bitter fighting, both sides were in precarious positions. One of Chiang's armies had been cut off, and two others that tried to rescue it had exposed salients. The Red generals Chen Yi and Liu Po-cheng were trying to reinforce their badly mauled forces; the Communist supply lines from the north were long, and open to air attack in coverless terrain...
...Will Stay." A more common attitude was expressed by a Tangshan miner in blue dungarees, driving a donkey cart heaped with coal. "My life is now bitter," he said. "For ten shifts I get a bag of flour. For 20 shifts I get a ration of coal." Would he flee if the Reds came? The miner snorted. "Flee? Flee where? To America?" A crowd of workmen chorused their agreement. "Nothing could be much worse than our life now," said one. "We will stay...
...Faculty meetings [at Harvard] are a thing of the past. Two or three times a year a group get together to listen to instructions rather than to discuss measures . . . Many of the older men who were once outspoken liberals have withdrawn into their shells . . . Some have become bitter. Many have left or have been squeezed out. Some have had their appropriations from the university treasurer . . . reduced...
Light Up the Sky (by Moss Hart; produced by Joseph M. Hyman & Bernard Hart) is a sort of venomous paean to show business. With a veteran's often bitter knowledge, Playwright Moss Hart has chronicled the out-of-town opening of an ambitious $300,000 drama. In a hotel suite before the performance, the swishy director (Glenn Anders), the splashy producer (Sam Levene) and the gushy leading lady (Virginia Field) spray the atmosphere with love, and the idealistic young playwright with admiration. Six hours later, when the show seems to be a flop, the playwright is denounced...