Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...bitter, windswept night, crowds gathered in Boston to see the city's Christmas tree lighted. Then, as a glow enveloped the 55-ft. spruce, Boston Pops Conductor John Williams led a choir of 500 boys and girls from local schools in Silent Night as 10,000 Bostonians sang along. In Chicago 2,300 amateurs filled Orchestra Hall to overflowing for the city's fifth annual sing-it-yourself production of Handel's Messiah. Jeane Moore, a Montana housewife, flew 1,600 miles from Kalispell just to sing in Chicago after seeing the concert last year on television...
...initial backing for the U.S. Government's plan to send Cuban and Haitian refugees to Fort Allen, a reopened military base in the southern part of the island. Even though no refugees have been transferred there, the plan angered many Puerto Ricans, and Romero hurriedly became a bitter critic...
...Alexander II in 1864. Poles accuse the Soviets of murdering 10,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Forest during World War II and of standing idly by while the Nazis brutally put down a heroic uprising in Warsaw by Poland's underground Home Army. These bitter memories make the present subservience to Moscow even more humiliating...
...fledgling union, known as Rural Solidarity, claims to represent 500,000 of the 3.2 million private farmers. Long bitter about government policies that favored less efficient collectives, the farmers are demanding equitable distribution of machinery and supplies to private owners, as well as increased government aid. They also want religious instruction in schools, preservation of traditional rural culture, and social benefits such as paid vacations, health insurance and pensions equal to those of industrial workers...
...sister Ella Rentheim (Irene Worth) in order to climb the ladder of success. Dying of an unnamed malady, Ella returns to claim the Borkman's son Erhart (Freddie Lehne), whom she had reared during Borkman's disgrace. Gunhild wants him to redress the family honor. In a bitter confrontation scene, the two sisters drink from the cup oof the past as if it were vitriol...