Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four city psychiatrists testified that Brown was crazy. Three psychiatrists, hired by Brown's attorneys, found her sane, albeit eccentric. Throwing up his hands at the experts, Judge Lippmann quoted the Roman poet Juvenal: "Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous." He found Brown to be "educated, intelligent." In court "she displayed a sense of humor, pride, a fierce independence of spirit." Neither suicidal nor malnourished, Brown can meet her own essential needs. Street life may be an "offense to aesthetic senses," the judge declared, but "freedom, constitutionally guaranteed, is the right...
...city is contesting Lippmann's ruling, and until an appeals court takes up the matter next week, Brown remains at Bellevue. Koch is bitter. "God forbid this woman will go back on the street," he said. If anything happens to Brown, he warns, "the blood of that woman is on the judge's head...
...this stage, the odds are not high that Reagan will change his habits enough to ensure success. But it will be a bitter irony if the man who did so much to restore leadership to the Oval Office in the end fails to provide it when it is most needed...
...those of you who stood by me, through dark of night, through bounteous sunshine, in good times and in bad, through laughter and through tears, through bitter acrimony and parsimonious intrepidity, I extend my most heartfelt gratitude. For those of you who lent me money, I promise I'll try to come up with it before I kick...
...those of you who cursed me, who hated me, who never read my column: I hope you're proud of yourselves now, shagstains. I weep bitter tears of anguish...