Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dopesters, pollsters, pundits, bigwigs, wardheelers-all shapes & sizes of political wiseacres-were now getting phenomenally nervous. By all counts this was one of the queerest, bitterest-and closest-of all the Presidential races in U.S. history. So dead certain were all the experts that the race would be neck-&-neck that a comfortable victory by either candidate would make political expertism indefinitely suspect. And the polls were indecisive-if they showed anything it was that Dewey had drawn nearly level since midsummer. (Only the gamblers saw it as 3-to-1 for Roosevelt, and not much money was being...
When the McNamara brothers, one an A.F. of L. union official, were arrested for the dynamiting, it was called a "frame-up." When, after months of agitation, the McNamaras confessed to the crime, the U.S. labor movement swallowed one of its bitterest pills...
...Chairs. One of the bitterest blows of a bitter German week was the sudden appearance, east of the Latvian border, of stocky, limping General Andrei Yeremenko, seven-times-wounded hero of Stalingrad, Smolensk, the Crimea. Between Drissa and Pskov, quiescent up to last week, lay the last thin strip of Soviet territory still in German hands. Attacking on this 100-mile front, Yeremenko made gains up to 25 miles. On the narrow Issa River, the Germans blew up their ferries and crossings, but Yeremenko's doughty men swarmed across on small boats, rafts and logs...
Symbol of a Nation. More than ever, the symbol of China's will on the eighth Double Seventh was the shaven-headed, tenacious Generalissimo. Even Chiang Kai-shek's bitterest political enemies, the veteran Communist chiefs Mao Tse-tung and Chou Enlai, acknowledged his undisputed leadership in resistance. In the 17 years since he set out to centralize and nationalize China, Chiang Kai-shek had concentrated tremendous power in his own hands. But he could never have held that power if he had not used it for China, and against Japan. In him a leader's will...
Fair Play. The feeling is bitterest in California. A month ago 4,000 Japs, segregated at Tule Lake for disloyalty, rioted; the affair was clumsily handled by the fumbling War Relocation Authority. Pro-U.S. Japs suffered from the Tule trouble. Almost their only defender has been the Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play. Among its board members: the University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul; Stanford's former President Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur; the University of Oregon's President Donald Erb; Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Robert A. Millikan. But when the Fair Play...