Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always been accepted that the Government doesn't collect income taxes from mobsters; the indigent cannot be expected to pay, nor can welfare recipients. And now we have to swallow the bitter pill of knowing that the wealthy do not have to pay taxes either. I'm disgusted...
...more freely, recklessly and intransigently attacked "the Establishment"? (Every political order has one.) Wherever "our heroes--Marx, Mao, Che" have prevailed, students, writers, teachers, scientists have been punished with hard labor or death--for what? For their opinions. Where but in "fake democracies" are mass demonstrations possible, or your bitter (and legitimate) dissent televised...
...racially tense Detroit, the incident might well have flared into a riot. Instead -at least so far-it has turned into a bitter debate over the conduct of Negro Judge George Crockett, 59, of the city's Recorder's Court. Wakened at 5 a.m. by the news of the mass arrests, Crockett hustled to police headquarters while the prisoners were still being processed. He moved into a small unused office, set up a makeshift courtroom, began reviewing each case. He ordered that 16 of the prisoners be let out on $100 bail and 22 be held, before Wayne...
...Abilene background strengthened him for the great tests of war, it did little to help him understand the urban society he governed. In the era of Keynesian economics, his obsession with a balanced budget seemed archaic. In those days there were, to be sure, only hints of the bitter black-white struggle and the sometimes frightening war between the generations, only the beginnings of the "new morality" and permissive society of the '60s. Yet even then, as the decade ended, the dignified Eisenhower of the early '50s seemed out of touch with his people, particularly the young...
Cats by the Tail. Why did Ayub step down? The President sounded particularly bitter toward his political opponents, whom he blamed for bringing on the nation's paralysis. He had halfway acceded to their demands by agreeing to make way for a British-style parliamentary government to be elected by universal suffrage around the turn of the year. Having won that much, both East and West Pakistani politicians, though still as divided among themselves as when Ayub once dismissed them as "five cats tied by their tails," were emboldened to press on. Not wanting to wait for the promised...