Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this situation. I said so, but I agreed that we would board the airplane and wait until Mrs. Kennedy and the President's body were brought aboard the plane. I suppose, actually, that the only outlet for the grief that shock had submerged was our sharp, painful, and bitter concern and solicitude for Mrs. Kennedy. We were ushered into the private quarters of the President's plane. It didn't seem right for John Kennedy not to be there...
Died. Bela Fabian, 77, Hungarian patriot, a leader of Budapest's Jewish community and prewar member of Parliament who survived Auschwitz and then emigrated in 1948 to the U.S., where he spent his years staging bitter protests against the Communists, particularly during the 1956 Hungarian uprising and during Nikita Khrushchev's 1960 U.S. visit, when he led 2,000 marchers with placards reading: "Murderers belong in Sing Sing"; of a heart attack; in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
...Arrested in Sweden in 1941, he renounced Communism from his jail cell and was expelled from the party. Ever since, his former comrades have regarded him as a traitor and a menace. Twice their gunmen have tried to kill him, and his appointment as All-German Affairs Minister brought bitter screams of rage from Pankow...
...struggle for independence four years ago, and has since suffered grief from a pell-mell plunge into socialism. It is a land where 3,000,000 out of 12 million people are unemployed and 2,000,000 more are only partially employed. It is a land of piercing poverty, bitter-cold winters and scorching hot summers-all of which have combined to drive 700,000 Algerians to Europe for work and relief. France has 600 Algerian graduate engineers, while Algeria itself has only...
...stunned to respond to the news, although Rosemary Haughton, a housewife and lay theologian, wrote to the Guardian that his defection "is a staggering blow to the whole church." Guardian Columnist Geoffrey Moorhouse also saw it in those terms. "For Catholicism," he wrote, "it is a blow as bitter as the one Anglicans sustained 100 years ago when John Henry Newman departed for Rome." Davis' friend and superior, John Cardinal Heenan of Westminster, said only that he would pray "that God will guide him in all his undertakings...