Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slogan. In Tokyo, firemen who have been influenced by U.S. advertising meth ods proudly displayed Fire Prevention Week signs, urging citizens to "keep your home burning." Habit. In Baltimore, Arthur Jackson left home and a bitter farewell note to his wife explaining that he was sick & tired of her and the four children, signed himself "your loving husband." Defeat. In Malden, Mass., C. Edmund Snook resigned as executive secretary of the Northeast Essex housing development council, explained that he couldn't find a place to live...
...incessant roar of the planes-that typical and terrible 20th Century sound, a voice of cold mechanized anger-filled every ear in the city. It reverberated in the bizarre stone ears of the hollow, broken houses; it throbbed in the weary ears of Berlin's people who were bitter, afraid, but far from broken; it echoed in the intently listening ear of history. The sound meant one thing: the West was standing its ground and fighting back...
...beginning, the British viewed it as a minor dispute. They believed that the colonists could not fight, that the people were not deeply hostile, that the trouble would end once the ringleaders were rounded up, and that a deep love of the old country persisted despite the increasingly bitter battles...
...disarming; mostly, insofar as he errs, he errs nobly on the side of restraint. He pours out the marvelous liquids of the first soliloquy (0! that this too, too solid flesh would melt) very tenderly and melodiously, but with little of the anguish which lies half-awakened beneath the bitter mildness. To be, or not to be is spoken in a stoical quietude and levelness, but the subtler possibilities are not very clearly realized in those definitive, eroded lines; and with that insufficient realization their deepest humanity, along with their deepest art, slips away, much as the suicidal dagger slips...
...victors of World War I in allowing the wicked to rearm. Churchill himself steadfastly warned the world against Hitler's progress from conquest to conquest, to crimes without equal "in scale and wickedness with any that have darkened the human record." That he was personally happy during these bitter years-painting, writing and lecturing-does not seem to lessen their pain in his memory...