Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Education and Labor Committee was in a bitter and bilious mood. Its members had spent six days investigating Petrillo's practices. They had heard the big men of the record business deplore his record ban. They had listened while the big men of the radio networks denounced his ban on television and his refusal to let FM stations share standard musical broadcasts. But they had been unable to draw forth suggestions for punitive legislation. The big men wanted to negotiate with Petrillo, not demolish him. Somewhat frustrated, the G.O.P. committee members swore that they themselves would reduce Caesar...
From his balcony, General Somoza looked out over the city he had ruled for 16 years. "Yes," he said, "they are certainly coming here-coming into my drugstore. On my shelves are many medicines. Some are easy to take; others are very bitter. Which I shall administer depends on the situation...
...many had the strength or the spirit to offer complete resistance. Ambrière was one of 4,000 Frenchmen (there were also 300 Dutchmen and 200 Belgians) who were sent to a special camp in Poland for bitter-enders who refused to do any work for the Germans. When the Russians got close, these prisoners were returned to Germany, where Ambrière's group was liberated by the U.S. Third Army...
Proust Without Interruption. Not even his time in solitary left him entirely bitter, for he found "that it is far easier to withstand hunger when alone than in the company of others." And he there had the chance "to read all the works of Marcel Proust without interruption. . . . I also read eleven volumes of The Origins of Contemporary France, Dom Leclerq's History of the Revolution, and Rousseau's Confessions, The very length of these works prevents most free men from completing them; in one sense, therefore, I was freer than most." Nor was he forgotten...
Night Song (RKO Radio) takes the cake, or most of the frosting anyhow, for fancy plot. A rich San Francisco music lover (Merle Oberon) decides that what poor, blind, bitter Composer Dana Andrews needs, if he is ever to finish his concerto, is the love of a girl whom he can't feel is pitying him. She pretends to be blind and poor; Dana falls for her, and his genius starts boiling...