Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crucible of conflict, they melted away, until only two were left who counted. Writes Catton: "Of all the leaders, two men had the terrible capacity to make men love them and to strike with unrestrained furv-Robert E. Lee and Abraham Lincoln. These two would be followed to the bitterest end, to the sorrow, the glory, and finally the salvation of their common country...
Dodderers & Bashi-Bazouks. In the Mirror, Bill Connor staunchly defended his handiwork: "My denunciation was harsh and bitter, for those were the harshest and bitterest days in a thousand years of our history." He disclosed that the script had even been criticized as "too mild" by a man with a reputation "more weighty than that of the author of Vile Bodies"-Winston Churchill himself. On the other hand, he argued, Waugh's "Ceremony of the Opening of the Wounds" could only hurt Wodehouse. Snapped Connor: "Now Mr. Waugh, in the role of an eager exhumer, disinters the corpse...
...nylon tires, his car would start shaking him up like a concrete mixer. Battling to supply the $300 million worth of reinforcing yarn used in the 105 million tires made each year in the U.S.. manufacturers of nylon and rayon cord were waging one of the bitterest and least restrained advertising campaigns in modern business history...
...economy. Besides having a controlling interest in the New York Central and substantial chunks of the Baltimore & Ohio and Missouri Pacific railroads, Alleghany controls Minneapolis' Investors Diversified Services, a $3.4 billion investment giant that includes the world's largest mutual fund. In the biggest and bitterest proxy fight in U.S. history, the Murchisons snatched Alleghany out of the hands of Woolworth Heir Allan P. Kirby, 68, a Wall Street titan with a fortune far bigger than theirs. More impressive yet, they won by rallying more Wall Street support than Kirby himself. "All of us here in Texas were...
...senior thesis two years ago, Judy Hallerstein '59 suggested that anti-Harvard bias was inversely proportional to the incomes of Cambridge residents whom she interviewed. People in the lower economic categories were the bitterest critics of the University; the higher the income, the more favorable was the attitude...