Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply to one question. Asked what happens when scientific truth conflicts with "religious truth," he replied in effect that there can be no conflict - truth is truth. Galileo, Copernicus and a host of others, from bitter personal experience, could testify to the contrary...
...gates of the Ford Motor Co.'s sprawling River Rouge and Lincoln plants and onto the picket lines. C.I.O. loudspeaker trucks rolled into place. Square white placards carried the message: FORD IS ON STRIKE. It was the first mass walkout at Ford since 1941, when a bitter, ten-day strike forced stubborn old Henry Ford to recognize the union. This time U.A.W. had been painfully rallied by an old, three-alarm cry: "Speed...
...adorn them. In their weary, often grumbling and fumbling way, it was Berlin's plain people who won the battle-the people who met in huge rallies to hurl their defiance from the shadow of the Red-flag-topped Brandenburger Tor, the people who turned out in bitter cold last December to vote a solid no to the Communists, the people who cut down their trees rather than accept Russia's favors. Without them, the West, for all its bold determination and its roaring C-54s, would have lost Berlin...
Termite Level. "They are laughing at you," sniffed the senior Maeterlinck when Maurice's first mystical writings found their way into print. "Some of my acquaintances did not recognize me," recalled Maurice, "while my friends gave me their hands with an air of pity." Bitter and hurt, he left his native land and went to Paris. There he soon found kinder friends, produced the brooding, mystical plays and essays (Les Aveugles, Pelléas et Mélisande, The Life of the Bee) which made his fame worldwide. Critics praised him. He won the Nobel Prize...
...wavering, incompetent and characterless" policy of appeasing the Nationalists. He went on a diet of fruit juice and unsweetened tea. His protest was in vain. This week van Suchtelen read the news of the government's agreement with the "rebels." This cup of tea was too bitter for him; discouraged, he broke his fast...