Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republican Goldwater's bitter words jolted the White House even though he had sent a copy of the speech to the President in advance, with a letter expressing regret that he had to make it. But pressed for his reaction to the speech, Ike calmly told his press conference (see below) that differences of opinion are part of the American political system, and then he added his point that the U.S. cannot turn back to 1890. Best translation: Ike intends to stick by his Modern Republican guns, but he does not intend to turn them on the other wing...
Echoing the classical threat in Lysistrata, Mrs. Norah Hinks urged the National Conference of Labor Women at Torquay to lock their husbands out of their bedrooms until the government agreed to call off the H-bomb tests. After three hours' bitter wrangling with the pacifists and Bevanites in his own parliamentary party, Gaitskell caved in. To avoid a party split, he backed a compromise, urging postponement of the tests for a "limited period...
Others turned Norman's suicide into an anti-U.S. romp. Tory Leader John Diefenbaker attributed Norman's death to "witch-hunting proclivities of certain congressional inquisitors," and the CCF's Alistair Stewart cried that Norman had been "murdered by slander." Editorials in general were bitter...
Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian-made movies-a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life, by Federico Fellini, who directed La Strada (TIME...
...qualms about the decadence of Augustan Rome, it can only be inferred, as in Restoration comedy, from the intensity of his frivolity. "Every age probably regards itself as unique in its sexual sophistication," says Translator Humphries. In a city of such sophisticates, Ovid, whose unlikely origin was the hard, bitter soil of Abruzzi (where he was born 2,000 years ago last month), became the elegant arbiter of sexual dalliance. The Art of Love has no four-letter words, only four-letter situations. Written in a sportively professorial tone, it tells the young amorist where to pick up a girl...