Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better summarize the state of the Hungarian nation than the one thing Budapesters have managed to save from the wreckage: their famed wit. Once gay as a gypsy's bow and spicy as goulash á la Szekely, the jokes circulating through Budapest cafés last week were bitter...
...Bitter Strength. Last week, TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin cabled from Hankow an account of this dogged engineering miracle...
...From distant forests as far away as 400 kilometers, floated downriver wherever possible and carried on coolies' shoulders elsewhere, came timbers. What the bitter strength of Chinese labor did with these timbers is still an amazing sight to see: trestle bridges, often several tiers high, provide temporary crossings. Beside them rise the concrete foundations of permanent structures...
...Director Tu put on three shifts of laborers, working day & night. The engineers managed to sink heavy loads of log piles, through unprecedentedly high water. Somehow, without modern diving equipment, timber superstructure had to be fastened to piles as much as 30 feet under water. Again the coolies' bitter strength saved the day. Local rivermen dove in, swam down for 80 seconds, drove spikes with hand hammers, a blow or two at each dive, until all were securely in place...
...stalked a squad of grim-faced A.F.L. printers. They marched across the street to Rosen's saloon, a hangout for Record workers. In the bar, they walked up to a group of strikers, tossed them the proofs of a statement that was running on Page One. Said one bitter printer: "Well, you guys have finally managed to close the paper...