Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he was not running the government, Barrientos was off piloting his rickety DC-3 to every corner of the country, visiting as many as twelve towns a day. Through swirls of confetti, he pumped hands, sipped the peasants' bitter, beery chicha and traded quips with campesinos in their native Quechua. As the elections drew near, Barrientos resigned as a member of the ruling junta and mustered a mixed-breed coalition of leftist and rightist groups into a party he called the Bolivian Revolutionary Front (F.R.B...
...laws of French colonial bureaucracy as the start of Malraux's fervent anticolonialism. Indeed, he did return to Indochina to start an independence movement, beginning his long flirtation with revolutionaries that led him to fight in China during the 1920s and Spain in the 1930s. Clara is hardly bitter; she even seeks to justify the theft. "Love," says she, "gives one rights...
Does anyone ever get a fair trial in court? Though U.S. trials are aimed at discovering the truth and dispensing justice, the parties to the trials are really seeking triumph and justification. The very phrase "adversary system" denotes a bitter duel rather than a disinterested inquiry. Worse, the duelers tend to indulge in trickery, and fight with "make-believe" evidence that often bears scant relation to the facts at issue...
...tell. Spontaneous narrative would be far more revealing and probably more accurate. As it stands, says Marshall, "testimony is constantly dissected and contradicted and reshaped toward partisan ends. That is the essence of a trial; it is not a scientific or philosophic quest for some absolute truth, but a bitter proceeding in which evidence is cut into small pieces, distorted, analyzed, challenged by the opposition, and reconstructed imperfectly in summation...
...Arabic translation of a much older Syriac account of Nazarene beliefs, probably dating from the 5th century and presumably written by members of the sect. The Nazarenes, who claimed descent from Jesus' first disciples, were driven out of Palestine into Syria around 62 A.D. after a bitter quarrel with other Christians...