Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ally and possible rival, Lawyer Swart, once tr'ed-and failed-to make his fortune in Hollywood (he played a bit part as a giant). A strident anti-Semite ("No Jewish votes are wanted"), he shares Strydom's Anglophobia, but reserves his bitterest contempt for the native four-fifths of South Africa's population. Swart once dramatized his plans to get tough with the Negroes by appearing in Parliament with a cat-o'-nine-tails tucked under...
...bitterest complaint was that East German machinery, consumer goods, medicines and food are being shipped off to Russia. All that is left for the Germans is shoddy garments and ill-tasting food. "There are shirts available only for men boasting neck measurements of 42 or 43 centimeters," groused a Berliner with a 38-cm. neck (15 U.S.). Five-Year Plan pencil sharpeners, wrote Stenographer Ursula Hollman, produce nothing but "crooked points." Worst of all, snorted Housewife Elli Dau, is the unrationed liverwurst. "After roasting it, it is still indigestible. Even our dog shrank his nose and shook his head disapproving...
...been the bitterest fighting and the most gallant fighting I have ever seen," said Colonel James Adams of Monterey, Calif. "We've tried every approach to that mountain, we've crawled up every finger of the ridge. That's right-crawled. You can't climb up it. It's like a razor. There haven't been any prisoners taken by either side on top of that mountain...
...freedom. The Communist record in China and Korea shook their doubts, but still it seemed to them that the French cause in Indo-China was, at best, the lesser of two evils; proud Viet Nam nationalism could not forget the arrogant French colonialism of the past. Some of the bitterest criticism of France came from the native intelligentsia who spoke the purest French. Many joined Ho Chi Minh's camp. Many more played the game the French called attentisme-fence-sitting-waiting to see which side would...
...regular Republicans, 35 lonely liberal Republicans. The best organized factions, the Southern Democrats and regular Republicans, could unite and did on one negative course: bilking Harry Truman. Republican motives were obvious. Southern Democrats were still going around with old Truman spears sticking out of their hides. Some of the bitterest denunciations of the President came in Dixie accents. Almost every day a new dirty Truman story guffawed out of Democratic cloakrooms...