Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bitter Pill. Less than ten hours later, the weary legislators returned to vote on the gold proposal. Premier Schuman staked his government's survival on the measure, gave the Socialists a clear choice. With the Communists and the Gaullists eagerly waiting for the coalition government to prove its incompetence to rule, the Socialists decided to stick with Schuman. Schuman's margin: a comfortable 98 votes...
...skittered nervously upward. Many a thrifty soul with a sockful of 5,000-franc notes spent an anxious two days before he learned that the government would redeem his notes in full-if he could prove that he came by them legally. Said a Paris policeman: "This is a bitter pill, but we will have to swallow it. Let's hope it will save France...
...Juan Pablo Perez Alfonso, in a deal that would give Argentine State Trader Miguel Miranda a dose of his own medicine, was ready to barter 2 million barrels of Venezuela's high-priced oil for Miranda's expensive beef. Oil-starved Argentines thought the medicine not too bitter...
...noisiest journalistic joust of the decade, the battle began three days before Pearl Harbor, when a rich newcomer, Marshall Field, started his liberal Chicago Sun to fight McCormick's well-entrenched, isolationist Tribune. One bitter morning last week, while frozen-fingered printers picketed Field's plant on windswept Wacker Drive, the battle ended. The Sun gave up the ghost and merged with Field's afternoon tabloid Times. This week, when the Sun & Times went on the newsstands, there were few recognizable Sunbeams...
Mikolajczyk devoted the major part of his address to a bitter attack on the present Communist-dominated government bloc in Poland, which has "already made the state sole employer and property owner, as a prelude to complete Communism...