Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Money to Burn. In the Bitter Root Mountains, Idaho, Bob Hart went on a mountain goat hunt, needed a fire to keep from freezing, could find no kindling, had to use $100 worth of uncashed checks...
From their monastic quarters near the main temple, the priests dragged the abbot of Paiyunkuan, An Shih-lin, and his favorite priest, Pai Chin-yi. In the flickering light of oil lamps, a bitter trial began. The priestly jury found the abbot and his henchman guilty of illegal relations with women (kept in a house beyond the temple walls); of squandering temple funds (to buy heroin); and of starving two Chinese because they refused to collaborate with the Japs...
...obnoxious to so many people as John Lewis. He is a dictator in his own union and hated by large parts of it, and he is a scrofulous nuisance to the public at large. But the members of the United Mine Workers gained unionism in generations of bitter and bloody strikes, and they will follow even John L. through the seven circles of hell rather than let anybody break...
...From Philadelphia the split spread, resulting in bitter lawsuits, un-Quakerly polemics. Even today some Orthodox Friends look askance at the indifference of many Hicksites to formal theology. Some Hicksites feel an "uneasiness" at Orthodox attitudes. But the conciliatory principles of Friends, and above all the joint management of such Quaker ministrations as the American Friends Service Committee, have made a healing of the breach inevitable, however slow...
This declaration seemed to signal a truce in the bitter left-ring rumpus for the time being and enables the CIO to offer a solid front against industry in the wage battles of this winter...