Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a Tory back bench Brigadier Harold Ripley rose to bite on a bitter note: "Is it in order for the right honorable gentleman to call those of us who have done a little bit for our country Nazis? If so, the right honorable gentleman may as well understand quite clearly that I regard him as a low-class fascist." That set off a verbal Donnybrook. Cries of "tyrants . . . gag . . . come on, Hitler" crackled across the gilded chamber...
However numerically inconsequential the result, the 400-yard relay provided a bitter battle and a close finish, as Yale's Clement took command on the last lap over the Varsity's flagged Bullard...
...Harry Truman, the choice of Douglas marked a widening breach with the New Deal. Douglas was Franklin Roosevelt's first director of the budget, but the New Deal was not two years old when he resigned in bitter protest against its policy of deficit spending. He backed Landon in 1936, helped organize the "Democrats for Willkie" in 1940. The New Deal domestic policy seemed to him to be verging on "tyranny...
...Franklin Roosevelt had no more bitter foe at home, he had no more ardent supporter abroad. Douglas was one of the first to warn against the rise of Hitlerism. He went back into Government service, first as Lend-Lease expediter in London, then as Deputy War Shipping Administrator. As London's News...
...with Genaro, both legs were gone at the hips. With a hot rage against life in his heart, Genaro got a little wooden platform to wheel himself around, bought a shoeshine box, and went to the patio of the National Palace to earn his living. He remained silent and bitter as he bent his head over the shoes of ministers, generals, Supreme Court justices. But one day President Alvaro Obregon slapped him on the back, called him Chaparro (Shorty) and invited him to his office to shine his shoes. Genaro came out with shining eyes-he was the President...