Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no doubt left that the C.I.O. and A.F.L. meant to fight a bitter-end battle. Phil Murray put his signature to a 41-page document listing legal loopholes for C.I.O. lawyers to crawl through. Old Bill Green announced that the A.F.L. was planning a national work stoppage on Election Day in 1948, to get out the vote against the Congressmen who had voted for the Taft-Hartley bill...
Catholics are accused of Fascism. The bitter struggle that rends all Italy recently broke out, in miniature, at Fiumicino. It was known as the "Clock Fight...
...BITTER END (632 pp.)-Hans Bernd Gisevius, translated by Richard and Clara Winston-Houghton Mifflin...
...first, there was bitter squabbling among the school's 100 students. Dutchmen and Danes balked at the idea of sharing rooms with Austrians and Germans. The teachers expected a certain sullen resistance to lectures on U.S. life and letters (chiefly Emerson and Hawthorne, Henry James and Howells, Hemingway and O'Neill), but the students, mostly teachers themselves, were eager to learn. They spent the mornings avidly taking notes at lectures. They spent the afternoons questioning and discussing at seminars. In the evenings, they gathered in the castle garden for reading and conversation...
...public still thinks of the Bay in terms of the far north where bitter winters grow thick, smooth fur on Arctic foxes, mink, muskrats, fishers and beavers. But furs are not the company's only concern. Actually, the 15,000 trappers from whom, the company buys are a less valuable asset than the far greater number of Canadians to whom it sells through six large department stores and 15 smaller stores. Sir Patrick likes to tell how this came about...