Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy Secretary John Sullivan had quit in a rage. Last week, in a pointedly bitter farewell, he said he was leaving "a Navy that no foreign foe has ever defeated." Nobody in the Pentagon missed the stress on the word "foreign...
...finally come. At the President's instructions, Johnson had begun shipping arms and munitions to beleaguered Britain, by arbitrarily declaring them unfit for U.S. use and thus legally available for export. Woodring refused to permit such goings-on. But Roosevelt insisted, and Woodring resigned in a letter so bitter that it has never been published in full...
...fascist agents." Michigan Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Homer Ferguson guessed that it was the Communists (the party hotly denied it), got the U.S. Senate to call for FBI investigation. Others guessed that it might be the work of some crackpot, either anti-union or a U.A.W. man soured by bitter fights within the union...
...comfortably in a fashionable quarter of Athens, where they do their best to forget their relationship to the rebel chieftain. Another son, 34-year-old Mimi, lives in the dingy room with Erato, but he is a poor substitute for Nico. Vacillating, weak-chinned Mimi is often sullen and bitter because the government kicked him out of his longtime job in a local bank when he refused to sign an anti-Communist affidavit, but Mamma Erato has no use for his tiresome expostulations on the subject. "We mind our own business," she snaps, and Mimi shuts...
...peace with nature. In the catalogue for his exhibition at a Manhattan gallery last week, Cummings expressed both attitudes in quick succession. ". . . Come let us adjust," he wrote, "until the whole world's an infrahuman ultrafamily of supersub-morons delightedly drowning in telejuke-movieradiovision." And he followed that bitter advice with the happy reminder that "Art is a question of being alive...