Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finland, unlike the Scandinavian countries, maintained its invitation to the Russian leaders after the Soviet brutality in Hungary, but only because, say quietly bitter Finns, their country must be "something between a neutral and a satellite...
Everything about the gondola had been carefully designed to cushion the harsh conditions on the edge of space. The upper atmosphere is bitter cold, but the air is so thin that it has little chilling effect. The controlling influence is sunlight, much stronger than on the surface. To ward it away, the gondola was insulated with four layers of honeycomb paper and plastic, and an air-conditioning system was capable of keeping the inside temperature down to a comfortable...
...tourists and fewer novelists visit the Molise region, which stretches, a withered Achilles tendon, above the heel of the Italian peninsula. Novelist Giose Rimanelli, who was born in this doomed place, has produced a bitter fictional report centered on a village that hangs like an abandoned bird's nest on a waterless escarpment between the Apennine Mountains and the Adriatic. His story, in translation at least, is as stiff, ill-fitting and yet appropriate as a peasant's wedding suit...
...sound bitter," the managing editor said...
...bitter. I used to like to here, but it's just been too long." Vag picked up his coat and started for the stairs...