Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City. The system of government under which Cambridge now operates is a result of the activity of Harvard men, professors, and students alike. Plan E-a city manager government with proportional representation-has made city government better than before; yet its birth was marked by the last and the bitterest fights Cambridge and Harvard have ever...
...Tokyo. During the Italian campaign, Almond took the bitterest personal blow of his life. His only son, Ned, 23, West Point class of '43, fighting with the 45th Division in Germany, wag killed in action. In 1944, his son-in-law, Major Thomas Taylor Galloway, 24, first husband of his daughter Margaret, had been killed while flying over France...
...Oubaas (Old Master) was 80 last week. Nothing showed Jan Christian Smuts's continued influence more vividly than the way his enemies tried to spoil the party. But not even his former pupil and now bitterest rival, Premier Daniel Malan, could prevent Smuts's having the most rousing reception of a long life...
...woman in the world today." Said Mrs. Luce: "Mrs. Roosevelt has done more good deeds on a bigger scale for a longer time than any woman who ever appeared on the public scene. No woman has ever so comforted the distressed-or so distressed the comfortable . . . Certainly not the bitterest foe of her political party or of her personal ideologies can deny that since Abraham Lincoln no one has done more to lift the hearts and raise the heads of the Negro people...
This week the Supreme Court upheld the Taft-Hartley provision requiring non-Communist oaths from labor leaders-a clause that was once labor's bitterest pill, and has since proved almost as easy to take as an aspirin. The justices had a hard time making up their collective mind: Chief Justice Vinson's majority opinion was shared by Justices Burton and Reed; Justice Frankfurter was on their side, but for his own rendered reasons; Justice Black flatly dissented; and Justice Jackson was somewhere in the middle, partly agreeing, partly dissenting. Three others (Justices Douglas, Clark and Minton) stayed...