Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carolina addict swore to shoot the next man who dealt him a bad hand, dealt himself a bust-and promptly shot himself to death. In Kansas City, Mo. in 1929, Housewife Myrtle Bennett committed one of the decade's most headlined homicides by shooting her husband after a bitter quarrel about a bridge deal in which he bid one spade, she jumped to four spades, and he, as declarer, bungled the play. Naturally, she was acquitted...
Rimbaud was indisputably the damnedest of the damned, but his biographies cloud into vagueness just as they become most fascinating. At 19, after four years of systematic "derangement" and blazing creation, Rimbaud wrote his bitter valedictory, A Season in Hell, then abandoned poetry-and his homosexual menage with Poet Paul Verlaine. During the next 18 years, until his death in 1891, he left only traces of wanderings that took him to Stuttgart as a teacher, to Java with the Dutch army, to Abyssinia as a trader, gunrunner and, probably, slaver. Now James Ramsey Ullman (The White Tower) has come down...
Mountaineer Ullman has stuck to the few known facts of Rimbaud's story, has imagined the unknown credibly enough. But in the end, he has after all unearthed only Claude Morel. Arthur Rimbaud and his bellyful of bitter dead still lie buried...
...Bitter Tea. The Warsaw talks were nothing new. Despite U.S. nonrecognition of Peking, U.S. and Red Chinese envoys met 73 times between August 1955 and December 1957, with the U.S. constantly pressing Red China to renounce the use of force in the Formosa Strait. What was negotiable that had not been before...
...orderly world, an aggressor cannot be allowed to assert territorial claims by force. That principle the U.S. was properly committed to defend-with a vigor that many of its allies could be grateful for but were too pusillanimous to join. An agreement on the islands' neutralization would be bitter tea for Chiang Kaishek, but it might also be the only way to remove what Dwight Eisenhower called "the thorn in the side of peace...