Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most 'Cliffe-dwellers "plan to marry after graduation," one Briggs-Haller commented, "and go to college only to become more intelligent wives and more interesting companions for their educated husbands." Other girls at the Radcliffe derm, where the article elicited bitter criticism, agreed that their education was definitely accomplishing this purpose...
...Taft up to, anyway? The week before, he had said he would probably vote for the full $597 million. Now he voted for a cut. To top things off, he changed his mind once more after the Senate's Thanksgiving Day recess. In a long and bitter speech, he again said he would approve the bill, even though it represented a "wrong and fallacious" approach to solving Europe's problems. The Truman administration, he said, was responsible for having allowed most of these problems to arise in the first place...
...movie bosses were in for a long and probably bitter legal fight with the ten talented men who got the pink slips of dismissal. The film industry, they cried, had been "stampeded into surrendering" its freedom of ideas and expression...
...campesino's resistance to the anti-aftosa cattle slaughter had been tragically bitter. A veterinarian and his seven-man soldier escort had been murdered in Senguio; bands of armed men, threatening violence to cattle-shooters, roamed the states of Guerrero, Michoacán and Zacatecas. Only last week, sanitation workers who had come to disinfect a village in the state of Querètaro were driven out with cries of: "You've killed our cattle, now you can't kill our children...
...from the yoke of Spain, died 97 years ago in poverty and self-imposed exile. Argentines have been trying to make up for it ever since; equestrian statues of him stand in almost every plaza. In 1880 his body was brought back from France, where he had gone in bitter disillusionment over political wrangling, and entombed in Buenos Aires Cathedral. From Spain last week, in two finely worked caskets, came the bones of his father & mother, Juan and Gregoria Matorras de San Martín, who had lived briefly in Argentina, then had gone home to Spain...