Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan last week, three forlorn people mingled with the crowds and peered wistfully into the shop windows of the promised land. The young couple was Rumanian, the slim youth Polish. To get there, they had endured years of homelessness, hunger, danger and bitter waiting-and now that they had arrived, they could not expect to stay. They were illegal immigrants, caught on a last desperate attempt to smuggle themselves into the U.S. Temporarily, they were at liberty on bond...
They had not let Mindszenty die. They had arranged a more bitter martyrdom...
Like the congressional investigations it considered, the Law School Forum sometimes reached the stage of sharp exchanges and bitter denunciations as it opened its spring term of programs last night at Rindge Tech...
Brooks said severe winters have been moving west in the past three years. In 1947 England had a bitter winter; last year the northeastern United States was hit by a series of heavy snow storms; and this year parts of the west have been virtually paralyzed by blizzards. "The westward motion may be just a coincidence but it will be interesting to watch next year," Brooks said...
With the opening of Lamont, Radcliffe girls have grown more conscious of the inadequacies of their own library and more bitter about them. Some of these will be alleviated in the rebuilding plans which President Jordan will announce next week. Improvements in lighting, ventilation and efficiency will probably be included. But, according to the statements of the head librarian other shortcomings may be ignored...