Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friendly Association. Then in straightforward Aussie fashion he laid it on the board: "We have been at war with each other, and feelings in Australia were strong and bitter. But we participated in negotiations for peace without any idea of penalties or reparations. I say this merely to establish it in your minds. In spite of events ten years ago, we have not approached Japan in a spirit of hatred or unpleasantness. Friendly association is our watchword...
...clouded scenes, or give a face to his sense of lostness, A Moon stirs to life. But mostly it lies dead; and something a little too decent in everyone's basic motives makes A Moon soft as well as enfeebled. There is no tumble and toss of sick, bitter, angry, thwarted, even petrified emotions. Everywhere there is a sense of O'Neill's honest compassion, but nowhere is there anything incandescently imagined or inextinguishably remembered. Words fumble through fog, or have a dated slanginess which, lacking all poetry, sinks almost to parody...
...paper-white face the dark eyes seemed unnaturally large. His slight frame, draped in a rakish tan gabardine suit, was slumped under the heaviness of fatigue; he had scarcely slept in four days. Yet he talked confidently, in the manner of a man who had learned some bitter lessons of human perfidy and folly, but had found that he could make his way. That same day he had gained a historic commitment from the U.S.. and got his security forces ready for devastating street riots that might be hurled against him by men made restless by circumstance, made passionate...
...many of the few dozen Bolsheviks agreed with their leader's violent policy. Said leading Marxist Scholar Plekhanov: "Raving madness." But because Lenin's "April Theses"-put into effect the following October in the Bolshevik coup d'etat -had stood the bitter test of 40 years, Vyacheslav Molotov was claiming, at long last, his right to share Lenin's fame...
With nuns all the rage this season, Playhouse 90's Four Women in Black put Helen Hayes through some listless paces as a saintly pioneer in Arizona, but she was largely overborne by Apaches, mesas of filmed cacti and a soporific script. On G.E. Theater's The Bitter Choice, Anne Baxter was hopelessly involved-and tearily terrible-as an Army nurse whose deliberate anger was supposed to scalpel through a G.I.'s shell of apathy. As Social Lioness Dolly Madison trying to make a Washington comeback, a bespectacled and bewigged Bette Davis had her moments on Ford...