Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allie Reynolds twirled a masterful two bitter, striking out nine Dodgers and walking but four, in the fifth game all year that he has been able to finish...
...article . . . makes bitter reading for any true Christian. The "widening gulf between Protestants and Catholics" . . . could never have come about had not both . . . departed so far from the true teachings and Spirit of Him they both call Lord...
Andrew Mellon's son Paul, to his father's bitter disappointment, had declined the career of a financial tycoon. Paul chose to go to Virginia, raise horses, read books and administer philanthropies. In 1934, with a strong sense of duty, R. K. Mellon took over the family throne...
...They Like It?" King's detractors complain of his relative musical ignorance and object to his top-sergeant tactics in rehearsing for hours over the simplest phrases. His critics are also bitter because some "original Wayne King compositions" (Josephine, The Waltz You Saved for Me, Lullaby for Latins) are actually the work of several musical collaborators. To objectors King has an invariable answer: "The test is, do the people like it?" So far, they have...
Cervantes wrote his masterpiece while in his 50s and 60s, sick to death of the dropsy, jailed as often as not on a recurring charge of embezzlement, harried with an incredible series of family troubles. He was at the bitter end of a bitter life, yet shortly after Don Quixote was done he wrote sweetly: "Goodbye to thanks, goodbye to compliments, goodbye to good friends. For I am dying." Miguel de Cervantes died on April 23, 1616, the same day as William Shakespeare...