Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitterest grudges, the most grinding poverty, the strongest loves were forgotten last week. Poles are phlegmatic. Poland's suicide rate, the lowest in Europe, is nine per 100,000 compared with 13 in Britain, 29 in Germany. As last week wore on, as the nerves of the rest of the world unraveled like rope-ends, only one complaint was to be heard in Poland: What are they waiting for? Isn't it clear that compromise is out of the question? Why do they not begin? Soon enough of the questions were answered...
...most good Germans it was something of a shock. Had not they been told for six years that Russia was their bitterest enemy? But that didn't mean the Pact wasn't a wonderful thing. Did it not plainly mean peace? Now they would get from the Poles what rightfully belonged to them, and Russia, their friend, wouldn't march through to attack them. Now the "encirclement" of the democracies was at an end. Now it was certain that England & France wouldn't fight. If there was to be a war, it would...
Last week New York City's milkshed, largest in the world, was at war-the bitterest, toughest Blitzkrieg it has ever known. Battleground was New York's upstate dairy country, source of 2,640,000 of the milkshed's 4,000,000 daily quarts of milk (74% of which is sold in bottles, 26% as cream, butter, cheese...
With this argument two of his bitterest Court Bill opponents promptly took issue last week. Nebraska's Senator Burke said: "The important consideration is that the Court itself, as an institution, remains intact." And Montana's Senator Wheeler, in response to White House pleas, said: "I never disagreed with the objectives. . . . The thing I objected to was the method by which he sought to have it done...
...Henies and Mr. Scanlan saw something attractive in each other. In 1935 they put their heads together over Sonja. The Henie filmplaner were simple. Sonja was to go out in a blaze of amateur glory in the 1936 Olympics, then cash in before she became that bitterest of all drugs on the market, an ex-champ...