Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cavendish-Bentinck's Polish experience had been bitter. To find out what was going on, he had driven around Poland, visited old friends, including some aristocrats he had known since 1919, when he was assigned to Warsaw as Third Secretary. Last November the Polish Government arrested his friend Count Ksawery Grocholski, whooped up an espionage trial that pointed to Cavendish-Bentinck (without naming him) as the recipient of "military and state secrets...
...months of disinterested effort by various individuals and committees lie behind the document which comes up for undergraduate approval this afternoon--six months which saw bitter attacks and mutual suspicion give way to progressive cooperation of a sort unique in the history of student affairs...
...Objectors. Clayton, who made a fortune in cotton, stood on that line with a crusader's fervor. But the line was being assaulted. Washington, last week, heard the first sharp words of a bitter fight which could tear the so-called "unpartisan" U.S. foreign policy apart. The attack came chiefly from Republican Congressmen...
...bitter conclusion: "I cannot doubt that if there is a war within the next quarter of a century it will certainly destroy a very great part of the civilized world and disrupt it entirely. Perhaps after all that may be the best solution...
...bitter glories of the French Resistance had lingered on into the politics of peace. Long after the common enemy was beaten, and the people of the underground had returned to their drab lives, men utterly opposed to Communism hesitated to attack Communists with whom they had shared danger in the struggle against the Germans. Even the Communists had curbed personal attacks on men like Georges Bidault, whose Resistance leadership they had accepted. But it was obvious that sooner or later the Communists would do away with such sentimental nonsense. By last week, the last remnants of France's gallant...