Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NONNY NO ! trilled the Tory Daily Mail one morning last week. After the bitterest winter in 50 years, daffodils were blooming in London's parks, and government officials reported with relief that the unemployment rate had dropped, from 3.9% to 3.1%, for the first time in more than six months. Their jubilation was short-lived. In a rite of spring such as Britain has not witnessed since the Depression, more than 5,000 jobless workers converged on London to protest their plight, touching off an ugly, rock-throwing battle at the very door of Parliament...
Junta members objected to Kim's power grab as a blatant attempt to cut them out of the lion's share of the spoils. When they insisted that Park fire Kim from the party leadership, Park retaliated by sacking four of Kim's bitterest foes from the junta. But the four, all high-ranking officers, threatened to plunge South Korea into civil war unless Park brought Kim to heel. "The entire army is against you," one officer told Park. "You cannot...
...N.B.A. record book lists 86 players who have scored more than 50 points in one game, and 57 of them are named Wilt Chamberlain. "Wilt has that something that separates the great from the near great," says the Boston Celtics' Bill Russell, Chamberlain's good friend and bitterest rival. "It's a sort of anticipation. You never know what he's going to do, but you know it's going to be out of the ordinary. The important thing about him is his originality. Nobody ever played basketball the way Wilt Chamberlain does...
...STRUCTURE OF DIOCESES. Some of the bitterest infighting of the council may well come over the problem of remapping diocesan boundaries. Italy, with 48 million Catholics, has 260 bishops, some with only a handful of priests serving them; West Germany, with 23 million Catholics, has only 21 dioceses. The council is expected to approve in principle procedures for suppressing small sees and gradually dividing up such cumbersome jurisdictions as Mexico City (the world's largest diocese, with 4,800,000 Catholics) and New York, where Francis Cardinal Spellman needs ten auxiliary bishops to help govern...
...brain 'em and nip 'em in the bud." Griffin hastily added that he didn't mean to be taken literally-but obviously, in some circles, he was. For as Griffin let out all the segregationist stops in the closing days of one of Georgia's bitterest, dirtiest Democratic primary campaigns, racial violence popped out like the pox: night riders prowled the state, there were shotgun incidents in Dallas, Leesburg and Dawson, and two Negro churches were burned to the ground...