Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitter old man, lacking even the salt of irony. With a single yellow eye, and white hair growing in his ears. Leaning on a hickory cane, complaining out of pride, sexless, slowly rubbing one palsied hand across his navel and nodding in that dead omniscience of the past. Waiting for the world to come to him like a pig-tailed child. He is a Society, a god sometimes called Moloch...
...moderating influence on the Kremlin, last week implicitly accused Mao & Co. of being warmongers who boasted that "if 300 million [Chinese] were killed, 300 million would still remain." Gone, too, was Tito's old confidence in Khrushchev as the Kremlin's apostle of liberalism. The bitter new theory is that Khrushchev himself ordered the execution of Nagy and Maleter as a blow against Tito...
...Broken & Bitter." To pragmatic Nikita Khrushchev, what all this meant was that liberalization was a failure and that it was time to revert to a hard line with the satellites. He may have been pushed to this conclusion, but on the record of his career of reversing himself, he was capable of reaching it on his own. In true Communist fashion he chose to serve notice of his decision not in a proclamation but in action-the execution of Nagy, Maleter & Co. Nor did anyone in the Communist world miss the point. Poland's Gomulka, described by his associates...
...Officer. If this rare surge of national confidence ultimately may end in bitter disappointment, it will not be for want of trying by Charles de Gaulle. With the concentration of a new officer straightening out a demoralized command, De Gaulle was applying himself to shortcomings in French national policy that no one had seriously tackled in years. Items: ¶ Minister of Construction Pierre Sudreau got two months to prepare a program to build rental housing, so that France will no longer be the only major nation that has made no real dent in its postwar housing shortage. ¶ Minister...
Fifteen Hundred Miles. After the Kurds came the Taochians, bitter-end tribesmen who, when one of their forts was stormed, committed mass suicide. Next were the Chalybeans, the "stoutest men" the Greeks had yet faced, who fought them hand to hand and, when they killed a Greek, cut off his head and "sang and danced," waving it in front of the survivors. Armenia was an agony, a land filled with blizzards. Men "who had been blinded by the snow or lost their toes by frostbite" had to be left behind...