Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flower of the Nation." To some nations, the results brought dismay. It had been Tom Dewey, after all, who had insisted on more help to the sagging government of China. "Next January," Chinese had told themselves, "will be the turning point." Last week, as Nanking read the bitter bulletins from Manchuria and the north (see FOREIGN NEWS), it received a depressing dispatch from Washington: "There is little reason to believe that President Truman's astonishing victory will affect greatly the Democratic administration's existing China policy...
That Washington visit was a landmark in Nicaraguan history. It helped take away much of the bitter feeling left over from dollar diplomacy days. It cemented Tacho's affection and admiration for the U.S. Throughout World War II, the U.S. had no stauncher friend than Somoza's Nicaragua...
...with the grey gloom of a misty November day outside the windows, Tom Dewey and his wife went to bed. At 10:30, Brownell woke him with the bitter news. Ohio was gone...
...strict way and every inch a lady. In the Oppenheimer household, it was possible to think something rude, harsh or improper, but never possible to say it. "My life as a child," Robert recalls, "did not prepare me in any way for the fact that there are cruel and bitter things." He remembers himself unfondly as "an unctuous, repulsively good little boy." The trouble, he thinks, was that his home offered him "no normal, healthy way to be a bastard...
...pastor (Pierre Blanchar) who shelters, schools and raises her from a little wild animal into a lovely young woman. The pastor is the last to realize that his fatherly affection is really only a thin disguise for a lover's jealous passion. His wife (Line Noro) is a bitter, knowing onlooker. Just to complicate things, his son (Jean Desailly) also falls in love, but quite openly, with the girl...