Word: bitterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman in 1946 after serving as a deskbound rear admiral in World War II, he won a reputation for independent hardheadedness by pushing for an H-bomb program in 1949 against the combined opposition of his fellow AECommissioners and the physicists of the General Advisory Committee. Strauss won that bitter fight (with invaluable help from Physicist Edward Teller) just in time to keep the Soviet Union from gaining an H-bomb monopoly. After 1953, as Eisenhower's AEChairman, Strauss worsened his standing with liberals by arguing for continuation of nuclear tests until the Russians agreed to 1) a halt...
...primary fight was fierce and bitter. Although McCormack won by a comfortable margin, Peabody showed suprising strength. He has since endorsed McCormack, but has done almost no campigning...
...over wages. If the strike continues, all BOAC flights will soon be grounded. Even if the strike ends soon, it is doubtful that enough air crewmen can pack in their Comet training in time to begin the daily transatlantic flights. Said a BOAC official last week: "It's bitter to have run so hard and then see the tape snapped just as you're going to breast...
...tried to get his money back when sober and could not. Out of it came $1,000,000 and his lifelong nickname, the Lucky Swede. Soon the world outside could talk or dream of little except the Klondike. Preachers, policemen, doctors quit their callings and headed for the bitter North. The mayor of Seattle, in San Francisco for a convention, "did not bother to return home, but wired his resignation." From New York came 500 women, mostly widows, by steamer around the Horn. After a fearsome journey, they reached Seattle broke, their hopes of marrying sourdough millionaires shattered...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Comedian Jack Carson, who snapped to dramatic attention as Gooper in the movie version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, plays a reserve officer, retreaded for the Korean war, involved in a bitter tangle with a martinet colonel...