Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This confusion arose from some characteristics of 20th Century man: his materialism, his clumsiness in dealing with spiritual ideas, and his bitter and understandable disappointment at the poverty that still surrounds him in spite of the technological promise of plenty...
...last week walked behind Meyer's coffin in solemn procession through Jerusalem, for Meyer Tobiansky was being reburied with military honors. His widow's hair had turned grey since last spring; her friends suddenly returned to her side, but she greeted them with unforgiving silence. She was bitter about the army and the press which had convicted and condemned her husband, but of Ben-Gurion she said: "He is a good...
...pored over Marx, Freud and Einstein with the earnestness of a junior getting up a term paper. His purpose, says Sheean, was to arrive at a formula that would explain away the appearance of God or destiny that had forced itself on his attention in human affairs. After "very bitter suffering," he arrived at this: "The concatenation of the circumstances sometimes, or even quite often, becomes snarled in a way which produces indications of pattern in the incidence of the occurrences...
This week, Murphy, with his minutiae, Stryker, with his clients' stubborn avowal of innocence, faced the jury of two women, ten white-collar workers and businessmen. What Chambers had called a "tragedy of history" was near judgment and the bitter...
...ancestors. But before he could begin building the place up, he felt bound to scrap his ambition. King Devil, a big red fox which haunted the countryside, had run his favorite hound to death. For years Nunn devoted himself to hunting King Devil while his children grew more bitter, his wife Milly more resigned. When impoverished Nunn Ballew sold some of his livestock and paid $70 for two pedigreed hounds, to raise them from pups with no purpose in life except to catch King Devil, he was ashamed to face his family and his neighbors. To his astonishment they were...