Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reimann plunged on: "This assembly is furthermore formed against the will of the German people . . ." There was bitter laughter. "Speaking of mandates," yelled one delegate, "why did the Russians call off the Berlin elections this year...
...Cathedra. In Wimbledon, England, the Rev. W. A. Gibson noted that there were fewer buttons in the collection plate than there used to be, but came to a bitter conclusion: it was not morality that had increased, but the price of buttons...
Accompanied by a committee investigator, Chambers was led to one room of Suite 1400 in the Commodore. Alger Hiss arrived in the suite's other room at 5:38. He was in a bitter mood. He had been forced to cancel a dinner date; he was furious because the discussion of a lie detector test (which Hiss later refused to take) had leaked out after the secret committee hearings; he was distressed because of the death of Harry White (see below). Said he: "I'm not sure I'm, in the best possible mood for testimony...
Tired of their butchers' sympathetic tears, the nation's housewives put on a limited but bitter uprising last week. Month after month, penny after penny, the rising price of meat had stretched their nerves taut. Meat bills were 25% above last year's, 170% to 200% above 1939. Across the land, women began boycotting their butchers...
...penetrate the old man's rock-like reserve. They talked of many things, but not of the mysterious author B. Traven, the secret of whose identity had baffled a generation of admirers-including his publishers. Traven's books-sea, stories and Mexican adventure novels laced with bitter comments on the futility of modern man-have had a tremendous following in Latin America and in Europe. In the U.S. he was virtually unknown until his Treasure of the Sierra Madre was made into a splendid movie...