Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leech is pretty bitter about my picturing a few Congressmen as crooks and undesirables. Now I didn't make this stuff up. . . . Mr. Leech's own paper informed me that, within [recent] months, two U.S. Congressmen have been declared officially crooked...
...struggle in which he took part, from Yalta (January 1945) to the New York conference of Foreign Ministers (November 1946). Written* from records and from onetime court reporter Byrnes's shorthand notes, Speaking Frankly (Harper, $3.50) is sometimes illuminating, sometimes frank. Byrnes admires Molotov. Towards Wallace he is bitter...
Holy Cross will journey down the pike to Cambridge today to engage in a bitter athletic joust with Harvard. They will be very serious minded young men who will carry the Royal Purple onto the Stadium Lawn, and two football games will be uppermost in their minds...
Governor Bradford recently refused to support the plaque in memory of Sacco and Vanzetti on the grounds that there was no point in "stirring up the bitter passions and prejudices of twenty years ago." Unfortunately the old passions and prejudices need no stirring up. They sit in on sessions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities and are the driving force behind the present campaign of loyalty checks; it is passion arising from prejudice that has purged individuals from private jobs and caused colleges to ban student leftist organizations...
...rise to fame was fast and his ruin faster. By taking his life and those of the people buzzing around him, Duncan draws a picture of circus business at the turn of the century. Focussed on the middle west, the novel throws all the enchantment, the crookedness and the bitter struggle of early circus business against a background a hysterical free enterprise. As the circus grows, its art is replaced by the character and evils of a big corporation. When the companies begin to crash the circus tumbles after them...