Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farm-implement salesman, a brash, stubby little cockerel of a man, who left Sturgis, Mich, and headed for the thriving Southwest. Like many another boomer, he set up in real estate in Galveston, Tex., then made a killing around Alta Loma, 18 miles north. Oldtimers are still bitter about that. Wrote...
Already through the scores of refugee camps dotting Bavaria's country there drifts a bitter wind of social hatred and malice. Families herded into camps snarl with venom against the cozy villages near by. "If only the Russians would come for a few weeks," said one old refugee from East Prussia. "It would warm my heart to see the Bavarians thrown out of their homes...
Traditionally bitter Harvard-Yale fencing rivalry opens at 1:30 p.m. today in the Indoor Athletic Building when Rene Perey's freshman squad battles the Eli in a curtain raiser to the varsity match...
Leaving the White House after a 45-minute conference with the President, Lucas glumly admitted: "This issue has to be met sooner or later." Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath feared "the greatest marathon of all times" but promised: "We will fight it out to the bitter end, all summer and all winter if necessary." To his Rhode Island constituents, Senator McGrath declared: "Maybe you won't get all the housing or economic welfare you want. But if these things must wait upon human values then I say, 'Let them wait.'" This week the filibuster began. Georgia...
...Charley there is an intangible want that none of these things fulfills, even when it can be bought and paid for. Somehow he feels that life is slapping him around, and it makes him dissatisfied and a little bitter. What is missing...