Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Power was bitter over what Roman aristocracy and Roman commoners had done to his wedding. But 20th Century-Fox publicity men loved it: they distributed leaflets dubbing the event The Wedding of the Century...
...Republican National Committee marched into snowbound Omaha last week, bitter, bewildered and quarrelsome. They had come to find some constructive answers to the lessons of five consecutive presidential defeats. Instead, they plunged "angrily into a vicious, bare-knuckle denunciation of Candidate Tom Dewey and his hand-picked national chairman, Congressman Hugh Scott Jr., of Philadelphia...
Mere Puppets. The rebels insisted on a showdown. They picked Minnesota's 236-lb. Roy Dunn, who calls himself "a country politician," to oppose Scott. For 4½ bitter hours, speaker after speaker rose to fling recriminations at Dewey and Scott. West Virginia's Walter Hallanan opened up for the prosecution: "An election was lost because of stupidity, arrogance and cockiness . . . We've been mere puppets...
...cutting his first teeth; he would be a Jew of Israel, the first of Abraham's family in centuries not to have another nationality. Abraham and Zahava and others in the camp built a bonfire; around it they danced the Hora to celebrate the end of their bitter, lifelong journey...
...Author Upson puts it, Neumiller "just sort of grew up with the company." He started at 19, as an engineering clerk ("I always tried to get the desk nearest the boss's door"), worked up through drafting-room superintendent, parts manager, service manager, sales executive, and, after a bitter strike in 1937, became industrial relations director...