Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After one of Cambridge's bitterest political rows in recent history, Plan E was rejected in a 1933 referendum by the slim margin of 1,767 votes out of the 46,292 votes cast...
Some real jostling took place in the House of Commons at the foot of Big Ben's tower-the bitterest name-calling, insult-shouting, fist-shaking free-for-all that has taken place since Winston Churchill became Prime Minister. The row started when the Prime Minister declined to answer questions on a secret fifth-column investigating committee headed by onetime Air Secretary Viscount Swinton, political godchild of Stanley Baldwin, who had been denounced by Laborites as a consistent Tory bungler. Doubting Viscount Swinton's competence and fearing that he might use his Committee against liberal elements in Britain...
...very likely to be the last in some time. The Canadian Government bravely continued to purchase wheat from farmers at the pegged price of 70? a bushel, but everyone in Ottawa knew that though millions might starve in Europe next winter, Canada's worst problem, a problem of bitterest irony would be having too much wheat...
...Charles Arsene-Henry, French Ambassador to Tokyo. A scholar of Japanese language and literature, voluminously informed particularly on Japanese poetry, polite as a Japanese minstrel, Ambassador Arsene-Henry falls into the first classification. Last week he was cruelly hounded by devotees of the second. In a week of bitterest tragedy for his France, it appeared that something equally ruinous might be at hand in Asia-the beginning of the end for the white man's oriental empires. The discomfort of Ambassador Arsene-Henry was pathetically symbolic...
...kept from British Parliament and public. Then the news got about and there was an investigation. General Dyer was censured and pensioned out of the Army. He died in 1927. Sir Michael O'Dwyer resigned under fire to become the most hated man in India and the bitterest opponent of Indian reforms in Great Britain...