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Word: bitter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outside sale of this block of seats--a triangular section running from the top half of the midfield section to a few rows of the last sections--had already provoked bitter complaints from students and alumni here. The manager of the Harvard Club of New York reported last night that many members had also tried in vain to procure tickets for the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Missing Army Tickets Handled By Agencies | 10/14/1948 | See Source »

...afternoon, Evita met Noticias Publisher José Agusti, asked him bluntly if it was true that he had had offers for his paper. Shrewd businessman Agusti, onetime bitter enemy of the Peróns, replied that he had, but that he had not taken them very seriously. Eva persisted: "How much would you take, to allow you a profit?" Agusti named the fat figure of 6,000,000 pesos ($1,254,600). "As of right now," said Evita, "Noticias is mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Evita & the Press | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...wealth of publicity of the Presidential campaign has obscured one of the most controversial and misrepresented issues in Massachusetts politics of the last decade. Out of the Birth Control Referendum, which will appear as question number four on November's ballot, has grown a bitter fight over separation of church and state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: God's Law? | 10/6/1948 | See Source »

...government trucks to haul workers to downtown B.A. from the outlying industrial districts. Many a worker, by the time he reached the Plaza de Mayo, had also been equipped with a sign bearing a Peronista slogan. Others carried loops of rope, or miniature gallows-a meaningful reminder of the bitter speech at Santa Fé in which Perón talked of hanging his enemies (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: To Defend the President | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Sirens in Boston. The National League race, too, had been a thriller for most of the summer, but by contrast it was winding up as quietly as a Quaker meeting. For a fortnight it had been clear (to all but bitter-enders) that Billy Southworth's Boston Braves were too far ahead to be caught. This week the Braves clinched it -their first pennant since 1914. Boston's Acting Mayor Tom Hannon called for the blowing of sirens all over town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Guy | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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