Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After ten bitter weeks of hearings and debate, the Senate finally came to grips with the Lilienthal appointment. Ohio's John Bricker provided the opportunity. He had offered a motion to send the nomination of David E. Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission back to committee. If the motion carried, the chances were that Lilienthal would never be confirmed. If the motion was lost...
...sort of 16-cylinder poetry. Like a well-barbered, satiric Buddha, he squats in his forest of steel-&-concrete trees, grinning them such a grin as they have seldom had to bear. It is certainly a grin as wide as Shaw's, if less thoughtful-and quite as bitter as Swift's, if less profound...
...attract attention - Johnny started juggling whatever came to hand. "That," says Fred, "was my first and biggest mistake." At six, he had performed his way into St. Anthony's choir, rose to be a Wise Man in the Christmas play. His first stage lines: "Myrrh is mine; its bitter perfume breathes a life of gathering gloom." Every week after school, Fred went to Keith's to see the new show and pick up jokes and routines. He even began making up a few of his own. An early Allen (from algebra class): "Let X equal my father...
...town, a legend that eventually woke up to itself and had the shakes. Richter's quiet sketching of the period after the Spanish-American War, and the life of the "better families" might seem merely nostalgic in intent, if it were not for the touches that finally bring bitter horror out of Lucy's narcissistic dream. At that point Richter actually makes a ghost (Lucy's dead father) walk...
...wise and whimsical journal about the odd corners of Seattle life, with tales of seamy Skidroad characters, the scavengers on the city dumps and such old Seattle landmarks as the once-grand Globe Hotel. Seattle took the new columnist to its heart. His prizewinning column was typical: a half-bitter, half-sentimental piece about Memorial Day in Victory Square, where a wooden imitation of the Washington Monument lists King County's 1,300 war dead. The Square's "eternal" gas flame had gone out. "Eternity," he wrote, "wasn't so awfully long...