Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SIGNS AND WONDERS, by Francoise Mallet-Joris. Hero Nicholas Leclusier decides that life is really not worth living, which is somewhat difficult to understand, since Author Mallet-Joris has surrounded him with a collection of vivid people and a fascinating picture of France at the end of the bitter, bloody Algerian...
...bills, the Supreme Court decisions and the Great Society programs of recent years led many a Negro to expect that equality and prosperity were just around the next corner. "It hasn't happened," said Michigan's Governor George Romney, "and a lot of people are frustrated and bitter about it." "Nothing is so unstable," said William V. Shannon in the New York Times, "as a bad situation that is beginning to improve." Outside agitation may play a role after riots get under way-but rarely has much to do with starting them in the first place...
...annual revenues with a state lottery, but ticket sales in the first month totaled less than one-fourth of the anticipated $30 million take. The California legislature last week approved Governor Ronald Reagan's request for a record $1 billion in new taxes, but only after a bitter political struggle...
Described by the producer as "a cross between Tom Jones and Goldfinger," the new picture is a bitter, debunking black epic. It is based on Historian Cecil Woodham-Smith's book The Reason Why, a cold indictment of the military caste system that produced such rank incompetents as Lord Raglan (played by Gielgud), the general who gave the fateful order. At the time, he was so confused that he thought he was fighting the French. Another fact that the film exploits is the bravery-and arrogance-of Lord Cardigan (Howard), the general who led the charge. He penetrated...
...literature in either English or Spanish. It was noted that other cities have published such handbooks setting forth uniform roles of eligibility. This lack of information regarding their rights has made many recipients bitter...