Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nuclear ambitions are, in fact, involving the company in the bitterest controversy in its 111-year history. It has already laid the foundations for a site on which to build a big reactor at Bodega Bay, a desolate crag 50 miles north of San Francisco. Because Bodega Bay is only 1,000 ft. from the San Andreas fault-the shifting rock formation that triggered San Francisco's 1906 earthquake-many Californians strongly oppose the plan, fearing that a quake-damaged reactor might spill fallout over the neighborhood area. Whether P.G. & E. can go ahead with its plans depends...
...does a coach get his team up for a game? He wheedles, he needles, and if all else fails, he sinks to his knees in solemn supplication. But when the game is Army-Navy-the bitterest of all rivalries-nobody needs to be keyed up. WE CAN, WE WILL, WE MUST, read a banner at West Point. Bah! snorted Navy Coach Wayne Hardin. "We think we are the No. 1 team in the nation. We want to prove it." Army's Paul Dietzel mockingly agreed. "Don't panic," he told his players...
...rustle of rich brocade and a swish of scented silk, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu swept into the U.S. last week. She was accompanied by her handsome, 18-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, and preceded by some of the worst press notices since Tokyo Rose. Although not even her bitterest critics would doubt her courage, the petite sister-in-law of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem did have some fears about her 21-day coast-to-coast visit. Going to the U.S., said she, would probably be like walking into "a cage of lions...
Last month John Perdew made a "spur-of-the-moment decision" and went to Albany, Ga., scene of some of the bitterest clashes between Negroes and whites, to join the forces of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. He went in large part because he "wanted something interesting to do this summer," and because a few friends--veterans of the battle--convinced him of the righteousness of SNCC's campaign...
...bitterest complainer on this score is Rumania, whose industrial output started from a tiny base and is growing faster than any other COMECON nation's (14.7% last year). Rumanian planners aim to keep it rising at a 12%-a-year pace until 1975, but Khrushchev's COMECON plans would condemn Rumania to mostly farming and supplying raw materials to others. Result: Rumania insists on the "right of every nation to develop and plan its economy in accordance with its own national interests." When Russia dallied in delivering a steel mill that the Rumanians had ordered (against COMECON plans...