Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wehrmacht leaders meeting in secret underground. It is being nourished by the Soviet-zone concentration camps, which are no more decent than those of the Nazis, by the Soviet blockade of Berlin, by the division of Germany, by the inescapably antidemocratic machinery of military occupation, by the bitter polemics between East & West, by divisions among the Western powers that keep them from forming a coherent policy of their own. It is born of the whole series of tragedies which have whittled down the moral stature of those who conquered Germany...
...same bitter circumstances that threaten to transform decent patriotism into indecent nationalism are conspiring also to choke democracy's growth. The saddest and plainest diagnosis I have heard came from a brainy, sober man of 42 who has fought Fascism all his life-Waldemar von Knoeringen, head of Bavaria's Socialist Party...
...should be bitter," he went on. "But the bomb brought immediate surrender, which saved many more lives than were lost. While it destroyed materially, it did not destroy spiritually. It has meant that we Japanese who are left can build a better and freer country than the one our militarists took...
Searching his brain for a fresh lead on an editorial on slums, Editor P. Bernard Young of the Norfolk (Va.) Journal and Guide stared moodily out the window-and saw a Negro hovel cave in. Rushing from his office, he got pictures, a story and a bitter editorial that shocked Norfolk's officials into action. That was in 1933. Now Norfolk has four modern Negro housing developments, and Editor Young heads the Negro housing advisory commission...
Great Blizzard. The cold in the west was not the bright, dry cold that westerners pretend to enjoy so much. It snowed & snowed & snowed. Bitter cold and roaring wind turned the snowstorms into blizzards. The great blizzard of early January was the worst that ever hit the high-plains states. In South Dakota the Black Hills region got 50 inches of snow; Deadwood got 77 inches. Total snowfall for January in western Nebraska averaged 70 inches...