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Word: bitterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...selling for $3. Gone beyond recall beneath the Red tide (the U.S. was told) was the whole great heartland of Asia: the millions who had suffered first and longest the Axis onslaught, who had survived to resume their old fight against the armies of Communism. Bidding this nation bitter farewell, the U.S. Government seemed perilously close to adding: good riddance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Petition in Bankruptcy | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...Patriotic Communists. Strange and disturbing scenes from the past-some vicious, some tragically funny-rose from the pages of the Government's record. There was irascible old General Stilwell, in 1944, sneering in his reports to Washington over Chiang's reluctance to swallow "the bitter pill of recognizing the Communists"-as if recognition of the Communists would be plain good medicine for a government needing a cathartic. The same year saw the dispatch of Henry Wallace, of all citizens, to Chiang to urge accord with the Communists. There was sardonic humor in the State Department record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Petition in Bankruptcy | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...sincere description of how he became a Communist there was revealed the pitiful effects of Communist tactics and dialectics on a man of integrity and idealism ... No humane man could possibly fail to understand how Mr. Davis grew bitter and resentful, but to join the Communists as an agency for the reform of our social wrongs reveals the trap into which otherwise honorable men too often fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Next day, they started to pour down. Santiago's newspapers carried a long and bitter communiqué from the Apristas. Ambassador Miró Quesada renewed his protest to the Chilean Foreign Ministry, then replied to the Aprista communique with a 16-point message of his own, declaring no less than six times that the Apristas were obviously Reds, since their party symbol (like that of Communism) is a five-pointed star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: War of the Roses | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Episcopal Bishop Charles K. Gilbert defended Mrs. Roosevelt on more personal grounds, criticizing Cardinal Spellman's attack as "bitter and unjust," and adding: "I desire to associate myself with Mrs. Roosevelt in the sentiments she has expressed, which will be shared, I am confident, by multitudes of loyal and fair-minded citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Echoes | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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