Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bitter Enemies." Abruptly, one .day late in July, Barsov left. Soon he turned up at the Russian embassy in Washington. Outside official Russian circles no one knows whether U.S.S.R. agents threatened him with reprisals against his family or whether he simply asked to go home...
...pressing coats in a clothing factory. Then he signed on as an unskilled laborer in Stratford, Conn. Boris Labensky, an engineer at the Sikorsky Aircraft plant, took him into his home. For eight weeks, Barsov lived with them while he dug ditches for drain pipes. It was a bitter comedown for an officer...
...writing, offered to get him the money to pay back whatever advances had been made. Pirogov was scornful. As they left, Pirogov said: "Tell them thanks for their offer of money and for finding such a fool in you. If we ever meet again, it will be as bitter enemies." Barsov replied: "The embassy says it makes no difference if it's five or ten years-Pirogov will be back in the Soviet Union. I will watch you swing in Moscow's Red Square...
...Bitter Choice. Overshadowing this historic problem is the urgently pressing one of Canada's trade crisis. If the Washington talks do not produce healing prescriptions, St. Laurent must administer some bitter doses from his own medicine closet. He might even have to stop all but the most essential U.S. imports to Canada and let Canada live as best she could on her own production and high-priced overseas imports. That course for years to come would deny to Canadians such items as U.S.-made cars and clothes, U.S.-grown citrus fruit, Hollywood movies. Canada would save U.S. dollars...
Forty Percent? The big guns of the T.U.C., led by burly Chairman Sir William Lawther, wheeled up to support retrenchment. Trade union leaders prepared a report and a resolution which served up some bitter medicine for the rank & file (8,000,000 strong), who have been pressing for higher pay and other benefits. Salient points...