Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...locked in a world-wide grapple for men's minds. Often it seemed that the U.S.S.R. was making giant strides ahead, particularly among the emergent new nationalists and neutralists of Asia and Africa. Last week the U.S. was winning new trust and confidence while the U.S.S.R. reaped a bitter harvest of distrust, disillusionment and despair...
...Wladyslaw Gomulka, after he shot back into power last October on a nationwide upsurge of anti-Russian feeling, was to set Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Poland, free from house arrest. Like Roman Catholic leaders in other Soviet satellites, the cardinal had been taken into custody during the bitter Stalinist struggle to convert the 85% Roman Catholic country to the atheist Communism of its conquerors. Back suddenly in Warsaw, and instantly a national hero. Wyszynski set an example of restraint and patience to the faithful. In sermons and public announcements, he made the same pleas as Gomulka for national unity...
...their excuse, the special security police charged with imposing Strydom's will on his country swooped down on scores of homes throughout the cities of South Africa and arrested 140 people: clergymen, trade unionists, doctors, lawyers and private citizens. The one "crime" they had in common was bitter opposition to the apartheid racist policies of the Strydom regime...
Canada's stand in the Middle East crisis, though widely admired abroad, came under bitter criticism at home last week. At an emergency session of Parliament, the strongly pro-British Tory Party hotly assailed the government for its refusal to back the British-French attack on Egypt and for siding with the U.S. in bringing about a ceasefire. Canada had acted as "a chore boy for the U.S.," charged the Tories, and had "encouraged our enemies and embarrassed our friends...
Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian-made movies-a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life, by Federico Fellini, who directed La Strada (TIME...