Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the proceedings in the Assembly a bitter attack was made on Venizelos by Admiral Hadjikiriakos, leader of the Greek irreconcilables. Before the speech was finished M. Venizelos suffered a heart attack, was taken home. He was ordered to bed, and, although he was reported to be recovering, his indisposition halted all political action...
...many of the student countries I have found tuberculosis prevalent. In Russia alone last summer there were more than forty thousand students and professors lacking warm clothes or sufficient food to keep them, above the starvation level. What must be their condition today in the middle of a bitter Russian winter...
...those who helped to nominate Lincoln in 1860), and E. L. Godkin (founder of The Nation, and generally admitted to be the ablest literary critic of his time, although his trenchant pen also turned to politics). Godkin's largest reputation was gained in the bitter and successful fight that he made against Tammany-he was a "fighting editor." After Schurz and Godkin, followed Horace White and Rollo Ogden...
History. In the early 1600's the Thirty Years' War* ravaged Bavaria in which lies Ober-Ammergau. War was followed by the Black Plague, which was worse. To avert the plague, the Ober-Ammergau villagers, meeting in a churchyard, vowed to "enact the Passion-tragedy in honor of the bitter sufferings and death of our dear Lord" every tenth year forever. Fulfillment of the vow began with a play given in the churchyard...
...drudges cheerfully from sun up to sun down to care for his mother, the all but heavenly twins light-hearted, golden-haired Mary and Bob who goes to college and spends the small surplus bank account with contemptuous carelessness. The story is concerned with the necessity of making a bitter decision and a sacrifice...