Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the sacrifices involved in devaluation would be wasted if production costs were allowed to rise. By this he meant that appeals for wage increases must be rejected. The alternative would be "unemployment . . . bankruptcy . . . fear and misery." Nevertheless, wage-freezing in the face of rising living costs was the bitterest part of his message for home consumption...
...socialization" in medicine-into thinking that Fishbein's firing meant a change in fundamental A.M.A. attitude. The tipoff came three days later, when the delegates passed the buck on approval of the controversial prepaid medical plans run by laymen back to the local societies-in the past, the bitterest enemies of prepaid plans. The House, without committing itself, passed along a set of principles to "guide" the local societies in this old fight...
...shoot down a high-flying Air Force B-36. The fighters will use camera guns, because the B-36 is a highly expensive airplane; both services have stuck a security blackout on other details of the operation. The experiment will either aggravate or end one of the bitterest inter-service rivalries of the last generation...
...death of him. When doctors told him that his young wife would die of tuberculosis in a few months, he went to Switzerland with her. Earlier that year he had written The Final Problem, in which he drowned Holmes in a waterfall. The consequence was one of the bitterest, most ironic episodes in his life: as he sat beside his stricken wife, enraged readers showered him with savage letters, and mourned the dead Holmes by wearing crepe hatbands. Mrs. Doyle improved for a time, and her husband built her an elaborate house in the south of England...
...north, were four Communist columns under Red General Chen Yi. Chiu's right flank to the south was menaced by another eight columns of Chen's troops. Ahead, Li and Chiu faced three strong Communist defense lines between them and the beleaguered General Huang. "This is the bitterest fighting I have ever experienced," said General Li. "I have orders from the Generalissimo to advance at any cost. Communists we have captured say they have been told to fight to the death to hold the line." In eight days Li had advanced ten miles. He had lost 200 officers...