Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policies completely in the grip of Catholic-controlled reactionaries are false. There is a vigorous Catholic bloc in NSA, and there have been unhappy examples of smear-scare techniques at their worst. But to damn NSA in such sweeping terms makes one wonder whether Mr. Marsh is not bitter over the failure of his own organization to do just what he charges the Catholic group with doing...
That the result could even for a moment be in doubt was a bitter comment on the West's terrible uncertainty. It was in the Italian peninsula that the West's Christian faith, bearing a cross and strange new hopes, had begun its conquest of the world. Was it to be defeated now, on the soil on which it had been strongest, by the new tyrannical faith of Communism...
Photographer Joe Talbot and Reporters James Bellows and Carlton Johnson charged that they had been seized while covering a Klan meeting and forced to drink a pint of liquor apiece (TIME, March 22). Arrested for drunkenness, they had posted bonds, vowed to fight the case to the bitter...
Strovsky's bitter words are a damning comment on that double standard of morality by which large sections of the Western world, especially its intellectuals, have judged the Stalin dictatorship. Many of the same people who, in the 1930s, had been stirred by reports of Nazi concentration camps, refused to face the unpleasant fact that Russia used them too. Now Gliksman, who found himself in a Siberian labor camp after Poland was carved up by Hitler and Stalin, tells the story of that experience with a better chance of attention. The book is an unadorned record of human suffering...
...good many editors had already beaten him to the draw. They had bought his cartoons on the strength of their wartime popularity and their often bitter humor. When Mauldin went political on them, played footie with the far left and crusaded for an understanding with Russia, papers began dropping his cartoons...