Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole," says Grossman, Morgenthau "emerges from the record as an excellent Secretary of the Treasury and Mr. Roosevelt emerges as a great President. But there is sufficient in the diary to lessen the reputation of many important men and to provide a field day for Mr. Roosevelt's bitter opponents...
Next day, Gandhi renewed his spiritual campaign against India's bitter communal feuding. At 7:35 on the morning of Jan. 2, clasping a long bamboo pole in his right hand and flanked by four companions, Gandhi set out on a walking tour of Bengal's Noakhali district. On his "last and greatest" experiment, the Mahatma said he would visit 26 Moslem villages, would seek to rekindle the lamp of "neigh-borliness" quenched in that area (and in much of India) by blood...
...shook C.M.U. from stem to stern, although C.M.U. was not yet sunk and Harry Bridges and comrades were not yet licked. Bridges was on his way to Honolulu to negotiate a longshoremen's contract. But in the Manhattan headquarters of N.M.U., Curran's Communist pals, now his bitter, open enemies, scurried around like enraged locusts, shrilling propaganda...
...when it becomes clear that the original dream-house, safely bought, is too old to warrant repair, to the day when the new dream-house at last rears its modern conveniences above a hideous reality of mortgages, and stands proudly in its field of bills. Mr. Blandings will be bitter balm for any optimist who has dreamed of drinking from his own clear spring-and has instead landed up with ". . . one Zuz-Zuz Water Soft...
Britons last week could only hope that the Ghost of Christmas Present would provide a transformation for them, as it had for Scrooge. Instead, they chuckled grimly over a bitter Christmas jest, "Starve with Strachey, shiver with Shin-well" (Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell)*, watched the delivery of the King's traditional gift of a hundredweight of coal to the needy of four Windsor parishes, read hungrily about the progress of a British freighter, the Highland Monarch, as it butted through the foggy Atlantic. Aboard were 250,000 turkeys from Argentina, which would help feed many a hungry Briton this...