Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urged and brought about a compromise federation; merger went through, largely because of the tacit understanding that Forrestal would be appointed to run it. Then, as Secretary of Defense, he found that his own authority under the compromise was not enough to bring order and direction from the bitter wrangling...
These changes deal a bitter blow to both crews' chances of beating the Big Red, but the situation is not hopeless. The main problem has been one of integrating the new combinations on short notice. Rouner and Hutchinson have each had only three days in their new positions, a situation Coach Bolles is trying to counteract with two practice sessions today and another tomorrow morning...
...past three months, the position of the president of Queens College, New York, has been the subject of bitter debate. On one side have been New York Mayor William O'Dwyer and Democratic political leaders in the Queens...
...only good things Gerasimov found during his visit to the U.S. were "the clever, honest and educated Americans we met at the conference." But these, alas, doubtless victimized by the lure of lingerie, were "all characterized by one trait: a bitter, ironical smile...
...from the west and southwest, were within eight miles of the city. Simultaneously, two Red armies from the northwest knifed in toward Woosung Fort at the confluence of the Whangpoo and Yangtze rivers. At one point on the Woosung defense perimeter, Nationalist troops threw back the attackers after a bitter hand-to-hand battle...