Word: pill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as the anti-Communist powers sit back waiting for the next Communist move. Marshall created a crisis for the Russians when they had to decide last summer whether they would take part in the ERP meeting in Paris. They didn't, but it was a bitter pill for their satellites to swallow...
...than most Scotland Yard goose-chases. Mason does a credible job as a doctor who is frustrated by his lack of control over mortality, and who plans his revenge as a gesture of independence. Mason the murderer, with a body on his hands, contrasts effectively with a disenchanted country pill-roller who is guiltless, but parttles of the hundreds he has "killed' in his practice. Further contrast comes when Mason scampers behind a railing to hide his crime from a gardener coming home whistling hymns. The gardener, by the way, is the only one who doesn't succumb...
...speech was a bitter pill for the millions of British miners, railwaymen, shipyard and textile workers and others who have been clamoring for higher wages. It was bitter, too, for Trades Union Congress leaders. T.U.C. men would not swallow the dose without angry protests when they met Attlee and his cabinet this week; some were already muttering that they would not be able to hold the rank & file in line...
...Council. It should have been a simple matter to elect a Mayor by a majority vote. The reformists, all backed by the Cambridge Civic Association, promptly developed a schism and gummed the work. Former Mayor John D. Lynch claims a supernatural mandate from the people. His dearest friend, Hyman Pill, has cast 841 votes for the man with a mandate. Messrs. Deguglielmo, Crane, and Swan, also of the CCA, dislike and distrust Lynch and have split their three votes among themselves. These men are the backers of Plan E. They are responsible for its continuing success in a city that...
...nervously upward. Many a thrifty soul with a sockful of 5,000-franc notes spent an anxious two days before he learned that the government would redeem his notes in full-if he could prove that he came by them legally. Said a Paris policeman: "This is a bitter pill, but we will have to swallow it. Let's hope it will save France...