Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course of Icarus, they went through the air to Athens, the place he never reached. The little hills and the brilliant city grew into the darkness under them. They landed at six in the evening and had a bitter wine with their dinner. They made a journey which many a splendid army has made in two months; by the middle of the spring afternoon they were in Marseilles...
Even in France one does not take this genial 250-pounder seriously--no one, that is, except the police, who have learned from bitter experience that behind this gentleman's grand opera gestures there beats a brain capable of engineering even the most subtle of prison breaks...
...Senate having voted for Federal operation of Muscle Shoals, and the House having scrapped in Committee all bills providing alternative treatment, President Coolidge let it be known that he was a bitter-end proponent of the plan to lease Muscle Shoals for operation by private interests. . . . More visibly due for a veto was any revenue act providing a tax cut greater than $225,000,000. A direct message from the President to Congress urged favorable action on Secretary MelIon's plan for helping Austria to raise a $100,000,000 rehabilitation loan by subordinating liens taken...
...radical a shift in Egyptian politics came, and could come, only after a prolonged and bitter crisis (TIME, March 12 et seq). The previous Prime Minister, Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha?like King Fuad a British puppet?was forced to resign when he attempted to foist upon Egypt a British-dictated treaty of "alliance" which was actually one of "subjugation...
...blame for the disaster were under way last week, by state, county and city authorities. Mayor George E. Cryer of Los Angeles said: "Los Angeles cannot restore the lives lost, but the damages should be paid. . . . We of Los Angeles must face the responsibility." Fruit growers and ranchers, bitter, agreed with the mayor...