Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles' Queen of Angels Hospital, Mickey was bitter: "Them guys was just mad-dog punks," he declared. "How any human bein' can fire bullets into a crowd of people beats me. They're animals. They ain't human...
...narrow streets to the race course beneath the castle. They heard Labor Party leaders defiantly answer the Tory Party's bid for votes. The Durham gala, which began in 1861 with a protest march against dangerous conditions in the pits, is always a living symbol of the bitter class consciousness of British labor. This year-was no exception...
...TIME, April 11), Husni Zaim, an ex-Turkish army officer, has exhibited many of the trappings of a dyed-in-the-wool dictator-personal bodyguards, an extensive repertory of uniforms and a smoothly clicking propaganda machine. But in at least one respect, he was different: his soft heart treated bitter political enemies with relative leniency. Last week, even fumbling old Shukri el-Kuwatly, whom Zaim had deposed as President, had been permitted to leave his guarded hospital cot for a "complete rest" in Switzerland...
...said: "My conscience troubles me continuously, and at every moment I remember what I did." Fingering the Virgin's medal at his breast, he sighed: "I do not believe any longer the Virgin will take me out of jail; maybe some charitable person will have mercy on my bitter situation...
...People spread Barbara's breathlessly ghostwritten story all over Page One. Said she: "I feel bitter about what he [Haigh] has done but I cannot lose my love for him. If he could walk out a free man, I would walk beside him . . . Never once did he do anything of which my mother would be ashamed." But News of the World's 8,000,000 readers would have to wait for Haigh's own story. Until his appeal had been heard, English law, safeguarding his rights to the end, would not permit Haigh to prejudice his case...