Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northwest, where the private v. public power fight is the bitterest, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay last week made a significant decision; he gave the private companies a better break. For the first time, they were permitted to sign 20-year contracts with the Bonneville Power Administration, giving the companics long-term assurance of low-cost power from the big federal dams. For years, the private companies could get no contracts at all. Then two years ago they got to sign agreements, but only for five years...
After Joe McCarthy subjected New York Post Editor James A. Wechsler, one of his bitterest editorial enemies, to a five-hour inquisition last spring, a special eleven-man committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors sat down to decide whether the incident was a general threat to the freedom of the press. Last week the committee reported that it could reach no decision, vaguely concluded: "It is the responsibility of every editor to read the transcript and decide for himself...
Chinese intervention transformed a "police action" into a major war-an "entirely new war," Douglas MacArthur called it. In the U.S., it provoked the bitterest soul-searching since the Lend-Lease decisions of 1940-41. The debate opened old sores and inflicted new ones all its own. MacArthur wanted to ease the strain on U.N. forces in Korea by a blockade of the Chinese mainland and by air attacks beyond the Yalu...
...peace," said one wounded, worn-out U.S. rifleman last week, "I'd just as soon go back to the old war." To the U.S. 3rd Division on the central front, and to ROK 5th and 8th Division troops farther east, the approach of peace had brought the bitterest, bloodiest battles in months...
...army, a successful military coup, while always a possibility, looks highly unlikely at the moment. In recent weeks some of Perón's bitterest enemies-students and sons of wealthy ranchers-have tried to blast loose Perón's grip by setting off 15 homemade bombs in Buenos Aires. They gave Perón a real scare; police seized 25 machine guns, 600 rifles and pistols, more than a ton of explosives. But Perón, who blamed the bombings on foreigners and evil capitalists, once more seems firmly in the saddle...