Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rdenas speakers, one of whom was Juan Moran, a member of the dissolved Mexican Gold Shirts. They upbraided liberal President Lázaro Cárdenas, stormed against the Government's admission of 1,400 Italian and German veterans of the Spanish People's Army. But the bitterest of their abuse was directed against Mexico City's 15,000 Jews. "Jewish blood and more Jewish blood must flow!", screamed handbills which were passed through the crowd. Jews were responsible for the millions of U. S. unemployed, "Now they seek the ruin of Mexico...
Despite the fears of U. S. business interests that the dictator states of Europe are taking over the trade of Latin America, the bitterest trade competitor of the U. S. in Argentina at present is no totalitarian state but a democratic nation of traders, Great Britain. Although overtaken in many Latin American countries by the U. S. and pressed hard in others, in Argentina Britain still holds a handful of trump cards and by last week it became apparent that she is playing them in a manner calculated to take all the tricks...
...bitterest self-reproaches, occurring every few months, centre on his love of horse-racing. After winning ?4,000 at Newmarket he broods: "I herd with the vilest and stupidest and most degraded of beings. ..." After an evening with encyclopedic Thomas Babington Macaulay, Greville ranks himself with the worms, compares his mind to "a hurdy-gurdy in the Street" and Macaulay's to "the great Organ at Haarlem...
...BYRD is the only person in the world who could have written a book like "Alone," and it is greatly to his credit and to the friends who persuaded him that he finally decided after four years of indecision to write this unbelievable record of his struggles with the bitterest elements, alone for five months at an advance base in the Antarctic. It is not so much from the man or from his writing but rather from what the man did that the book derives its greatness. Although the author's style and ideas are more sincere than brilliant...
...pioneer story. Author Miller weakens it by an undramatic style and too many devices of romantic pioneer fiction, but she follows an authentic historical outline. In the first years the Sandlappers sweated blood digging irrigation ditches by hand, only to have the water disappear into underground rivers. But their bitterest struggle came when at last they had the desert blooming. This was their fight, legal and extralegal, with the El Dorado Railroad (Southern Pacific), which enticed them with a price of a few dollars an acre, held up titles until the land was producing and then demanded superprofits. Readers will...