Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor Bowden had a bitter moment-his paper would not be published for two days. Then he remembered that he was the Okeechobee correspondent for the Associated Press. He telephoned the A.P. office in Jacksonville. A few hours later, the whole U.S. journalistic horizon glowed a bright pink with the fireworks he had touched...
...Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret paid a visit to a reclamation project, where the wind proved bitter arid the Queen proved adaptable. For the sake of her ears she put on a scarf; for the sake of appearance she left on her hat. The result faintly suggested a Conestoga wagon...
...debates on proletarian literature, the analyses of the bankruptcy of the bourgeoisie, the expositions of dialectical materialism, the burning of the books, the reports of the street fights in Berlin. In that period before and just after Hitler took power, the books coming out of Germany had a confused, bitter, gnarled violence foreshadowing the impending catastrophe. It was probably one of the ugliest periods in literary history. Hermann Broch, born in Vienna and now living in exile in the U.S. (he was jailed when the Nazis invaded Austria), was an eminent Austrian novelist; The Sleepwalkers, a massive and gloomy trilogy...
...Mayor of Cambridge. Today, seven weeks and 841 futile ballots later, the City Council is still unable to decide which one among them shall serve as the chief executive. The filibuster has seen the Council Chamber criss-crossed by vicious political tracers, it has turned simple ambition into bitter perversity, and has delayed vital legislation. Resulting from a hopelessly disorganized political system and a calculated smear campaign by a few professional politicians, the lengthy stalemate can only give the Councilmen enough rope to hang themselves and possibly the city along with them...
...their power to elect one of themselves Mayor several times they have always split their vote. At one point Neville, having three anti-reform votes, received an unexpected CCA ballot. Mickey (the dude) Sullivan was last to vote and cast a ballot for John D, Lynch, one of his bitter political enemies. There was no Mayor elected that day. As long as the opposing factions in the reform camp insist on feuding, these men will be able to extend the filibuster indefinitely...