Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit when the phone call came: Met Manager Herbert Witherspoon had just fallen dead in his office, and the trustees wanted Johnson to succeed him. It was a job he never regretted taking. In 15 years, Manager Johnson had withstood roars of rage from all sides; but even his bitterest critics would admit that, when the books of the Johnson era were closed this May, there would be more written in black than in red. He had taken over a depression-ridden opera company and kept it going through hard times, a war, and mounting battles with the twelve unions...
...Club Unión reception, the President took in the dancing in the Parque Central. As he sat on a park bench watching the capital's famously handsome señoritas walk by arm in arm, some drunks raised a cheer for the government's bitterest enemy, exiled ex-President Rafael Calderón Guardia. Ulate forbade their arrest. "Let them viva whom they wish," he said...
...money came, the donor was lavishly thanked: "Your name was in every mouth; some wondered at your magnificence, some praised your exalted virtues . . . and indeed, that you are but mortal is our bitterest thought." But if, after the death of a longtime benefactor, no gift was forthcoming from his estate, Oxford's agents tried a sterner approach: they badgered the executors. Sometimes they hinted that the executors had misappropriated gifts meant for the university; sometimes they went to court...