Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...installed on Boston Common. Governor Bradford replied that he had no more power to do that "than the President of Mexico." But he also made it perfectly clear that he would not order it if he could. Said he: "I can see no useful purpose in stirring up the bitter passions and prejudices of 20 years ago, particularly at a time when the whole world is striving for unity, not discord...
Outwardly France was calm. Bitter winter was at hand, but so long as the soft autumn days lasted, people tried to forget. Madame Suzanne Schreiber, attending the annual Radical Party Congress in Nice, splashed like hundreds of others in the sea. As the Paris art season opened, Modernist Painter Man Ray's Le Beau Temps (Fair Weather) caused a mild buzz. A world congress of magicians bemused the Paris public in acts-one of which, said a wag, should be called the comrade and the fellow traveler. On Montmartre the celebration of the grape harvest turned into a fancy...
...sympathetic, soft-pencil sketches of bitter-bibbing charladies and cockney pub-dwellers were for several decades familiar to Punch and Tatler readers. The drawings had a good humor of their own, though the gags that went with them were too topical or parochial for export...
...California's total. But the next season's catches fell off sharply-to 142,000 tons for Monterey, 83,000 tons for San Francisco. Despite the adoption of such expensive devices as sonar to locate the schools of fish last year's catches slumped even more. Bitter rivals in normal times, the canners banded together, hired a plane and got the Coast Guard to lend another to scout offshore for sardines. By last week, at what is usually the peak of the season, Monterey had brought in only 9,700 tons, hardly enough to keep its canneries...
...Bitter End. The speculators had counted on an easing of the shortage Oct. 1, the beginning of the cocoa crop year. Looking for a price drop, they had sold cocoa short. But when no British and Brazilian cocoa was forthcoming, the speculators had to buy cocoa already in the U.S. This, some traders estimated, accounted for at least 10? in the price rise and it played straight into the hands of the British. They are expected to put the new crop on sale within the next two weeks and will probably get peak prices...