Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beeching's bitterest pill was not the price increase, though it marked a 50% rise in ticket prices in 30 months (to 5.25? a mile for first class...
This feud set the stage for the bitterest election campaign in the island's history. Lined up against the Labor Party were five other parties, all acceptable to Archbishop Gonzi. While Mintoff ran on a hate-Britain platform that urged an independent, neutralist Malta, his chief opponents, the Nationalists, advocated independence within the Commonwealth. (The island currently has self-government except in defense and foreign affairs, which are supervised by a British high commissioner.) But in the months leading up to last week's election, foreign policy issues were overshadowed by the emotional struggle between church and state...
...desperate fights, it approved Kennedy Administration requests for the biggest housing bill in history, an increased minimum wage and new federal highway financing. But such pet Kennedy programs as aid to education and medical care for the elderly never even came to House votes. And in one of the bitterest blows of all. President Kennedy got for his vital foreign aid a half-loaf that did not meet his urgent demands for long-term borrowing authority...
...Dominican Republic, Woodward's words brought sharp protest from anti-Trujillo Dominicans. Viriato Fiallo, head of the National Civic Union, the country's largest anti-Trujillo organization, flew to Washington to protest. But the bitterest reactions were among the Trujillos themselves. Ramfis had expected the U.S. to go all the way on the removal of sanctions, and counted particularly on removal of U.S. sanctions against imports of Dominican sugar, which cost Trujillo $56 million last year. "I've done everything they asked," he told friends. "What are they waiting for?" As his bitterness turned to anger, Castroite...
...Deserters. Control Data was born when Norris and eleven colleagues deserted Sperry Rand in a body, touching off one of the electronics industry's bitterest Donnybrooks. Norris and his engineering team had had their own research firm from 1946 until 1952, when Remington Rand bought it. After Remington Rand merged with Sperry in 1955, Norris became a vice president and general manager of the Univac division, but his research team was dismembered. When his men asked him to lead them in setting up a new company, Norris agreed...