Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schwellenbach to bring union and company together this week. For Walter Geist, who is evidently determined to break Local 248's grip on the plant, it gave accent to his contention of "irresponsible leadership" in the union. One of the sourest labor disputes in the country had gone bitter again...
...Evening Standard ran a bitter cartoon by David Low showing an aloof U.S. ploughing "the lonely furrow" straight across Orr's carefully cultivated world food field. And a Daily Mirror artist savagely crucified an agonized male figure labeled "World Hunger" on two skyscrapers marked "Wall Street," captioned his cartoon: "I thirst . . . and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it to His mouth...
...their eagerness to outstrip their rivals, the Japs had dreamed up some strange mésalliances. Chinese and Japanese silkworms, once bitter enemies, were being urged to kiss and make up. Two Chinese strains had produced a promising cocoon called "Airplane No. 1" (developed for wartime parachutes but never used). But, like most silkworms, he was finicky. Out of the laboratory, he evinced a strong distaste for barnyard smells, changes in room temperature. U.S. Military Government silk experts were keeping a paternal eye on a new cloth developed by a farmer in Nagano prefecture, but the Nagano worm seemed unwilling...
Team play was the feature attraction on the two House gridirons yesterday as Lowell and Eliot battled to a bitter 0 to 0 tie and Dudley, by means of a 60-yard pass and run combination, took a close one from Adams...
...Bitter Ender. In Brentwood, England, doctors prepared wisecracking William Parr for an operation, rejoiced to think ;hat the anesthetic would silence his quips, :found "This Side Up" printed across his jared stomach...