Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Chiang's bitterest enemies, the Communists, concede that he is the only possible wartime leader, his Army and theirs are still at odds...
...young U.S. attorney named Maurice M. Milligan was cleaning up Kansas City, sending one Pendergast henchman after another to jail for vote frauds, getting closer & closer to the Big Boss himself. When Milligan came up for reappointment, Truman did his best to ease him out, made one of the bitterest speeches ever heard on the Senate floor. Milligan got the reappointment anyway, promptly sent Pendergast to prison for evading income taxes on some of his slush money. Truman shouted: "Purely political. . . . I won't desert a ship in distress...
...proud English "public schools" (English for private schools) have often been criticized; last week they were exposed to one of the bitterest attacks to date. The London County Council, which maintains the largest educational system in Britain (truly public), refused to collaborate in any postwar school plans which so much as recognized the "public" schools as part of the nation's educational system. Cried one Councilman: "We say the ["public"] system is socially unhealthy and . . . excludes the great majority of the population and is specifically designed to uphold the class system and transgresses against all the canons of democracy...
Under Lend-Lease's bridge of ships, oceans of water had passed in two years. In the spring of 1941 the Lend-Lease Act produced one of the bitterest wrangles of the isolationist-interventionist debate. Last week Congress got ready to renew the Act in an atmosphere of love & kisses...
Twelve days later his Eighth Army, after some of the bitterest fighting that Egypt had seen, had cracked the Afrika Korps...