Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Private Papageorgiou and his comrades knew that there was bitter fighting ahead, and many a defeat. But almost for the first time since they began their weary marches, they believed that they would...
Ever since psychiatrists have been used as expert witnesses by the Courts, there have been bitter struggles between the doctors of the prosecution and the doctors of the defense. These battles have tended to center on the very popular "insanity plea." There is no legal definition of insanity, and since each case is different, the psychiatrists cannot apply any hard and fast rules. The experts can only give their usually conflicting opinions, and the Court must come to final decision...
...most part, "The Show of Violence" recounts actual murder cases in which the question of the defendant's sanity played the major role. In all these cases, official psychiatry was grotesquely bungled. Dr. Wertham, who was closely connected with the cases, tells the stories to the tune of his bitter critiques...
...this pageantry, the bitter fact remains that Americans know all too little about the pickle. What schoolchild, for example, realizes that Amerigo Vespucci, who gave his name to a hemisphere, once dealt in the pickle traffic in Spain? It is probably safe to say that few college graduates could supply the answer to such a question. Furthermore, how many citizens know that in a broader sense, the term "pickle" can be applied to any saline or acid preservative solution...
...Berle. Through the years, hard-working Comic Berle drove himself so overbearingly to fulfill his destiny that many a bitter show-business colleague came to regard him as a gag-stealing braggart. Now, having conquered at last, Milton seems to be living down his bad reputation. Success agrees with him. Says George Jessel: "He doesn't have to try so hard now, and so he's not so liable to be stepping on other people's toes." Once damned by many who had to work with him on the way up, he now has the respect...