Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Persian philosopher remarked, "Here's to Truth-a bitter pill, but a good physic...
Itemized Bill. In Kansas City, Mo., a woman sued for divorce, complained that her husband was "disagreeable, irritable, morbid, cool, bitter, jealous, heckling, picayunish, loathsome, insulting, brazen, miserly, gluttonish, temperamental, selfish, contemptuous, inattentive, uncivil and inconsiderate...
Auer. Hungary's Minister to Paris, Paul Auer, voiced a note of bitter disappointment not alone in the United Nations, but in the Big Powers' peace terms for Hungary. The United Nations, he said, was a misnomer-the nations "did not unite, did not form one great allied United Nations, but only an alliance of states, a league of members all jealous of their sovereign rights." He emphasized that Europe's small nations are hurt by the fact that when the fate of Europe is discussed in international gatherings they have little to say. Said Auer...
Adams lived in it for 80 years, until he died in bed in 1918. Most of those years, after his marriage in 1872, were bitter ones. One point at last made clear in this volume is that Marian Hooper Adams, his ailing wife, did not die from natural causes; she killed herself, with potassium cyanide. Says Editor Cater: "From this calamity Henry Adams was never to recover. . . . He was, in spite of his reserved self-possession, an emotional man. . . . [Thereafter] he never mentioned Marian's name, except on extremely rare occasions." Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens was asked to design...
...support of the American people, the liberal movement must be "as pure as Caesar's wife: the masses of the American people don't like Communists and it is the pragmatic duty of the liberal to deter to this if he wishes to get anywhere at all: (2) from bitter experience, we (the ADA) can say that the Communist within the liberal organization is dangerous--he forces the liberal to keep one eyes on the "family silverware" even while the great liberal "battle at the gate" is raging...