Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and his colleagues at this week's emergency meeting of the U.N. General Assembly faced the difficult task of inveighing against a fait accompli-Israel's shattering territorial gains. Backed into that corner, the Soviets might be expected to lash out with bitter denunciation not only of Israel but also...
Metternichian Minuet. However, the Soviet position was made doubly complicated by the broad opportunity that Kosygin's presence in the U.S. offers for top-level talks between the Big Two. There were clear indications that both sides would welcome such talk; but a bitter public exchange in the U.N. might well reduce both the inclinations and the opportunity...
...Perhaps what gives her writing its peculiar tang," wrote Somerset Maugham, "is her gift for seeing something to laugh at in the bitterest tragedies of the human animal." Her own life started in bitter circumstances. She was born Dorothy Rothschild in 1893 in West End, N.J., of a Scotch mother who died during her infancy and a Jewish father who died, leaving her penniless, when she was in her teens...
There is evidence, in fact, to suggest that Mrs. Bunting has consistently disregarded wide-spread student opposition to aspects of her project. The bitter protests over the destruction of Gilman House two years ago, last year's furor over flat room and board rates, and the off-campus houses' fight for breakfast subsidies are indications that at least a few Cliffies want an option to the restrictive dormitory living Mrs. Bunting would like to see effected throughout Radcliffe. Girls like the strikers, who are clearly a minority, are afraid that the intimate atmosphere of the small wooden frame off-campus...
...long campaign to the White House, his urgent calls for an awakening after the long sleep of the fifties, his stirring inaugural and the first one-thousand days in office. Most of them felt the frustration of his failures in Congress on domestic legislation, as well as the bitter grief of his death. After 1964, the Vietnam war came to dominate almost all political activity and discussion, deepening that frustration with the established processes of government...