Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President at his weekend home in Middleburg, Va. Shortly afterward, in keeping with instructions he had given, the President was awakened and told that an invasion force of Cuban revolutionaries had landed as planned on the south coast of Cuba. So began John F. Kennedy's darkest and bitterest week as President...
...Dolci has been able to capture the imaginations of men throughout the world. His movement is non-violent, and he shuns politics as a source of corruption, yet he is attempting a regional development plan for all of eastern Sicily--a plan that must inevitably involve him in the bitterest kind of political quarrels--if not a revolution...
...very correct. They paid for their own drinks at the ship's bars, danced with thrilled lady tourists, and apparently added a romantic note that made up for the discomforts of water rationing, badly prepared meals, and a growing sloppiness in the ship's housekeeping. The bitterest reports came from the 447 passengers traveling tourist, who not only stifled in their below-deck cabins but were also finally reduced to eating potatoes and beans. Once ashore, and with transportation to the U.S. or Europe promised by the Portuguese shipowners, the great majority of the travelers seemed to enjoy...
Harder still is the fact that Denver is defending its title against other top U.S. college teams manned almost entirely by Canadians. The Canadian hockey invasion has set off one of the bitterest fights in U.S. college athletics...
Despite the seeming monolithic character of Massachusetts government, its structure is basically just a colonial saltbox illogically encrusted with the bureaucratic gingerbread trappings of the 19th and 20th centuries. Even Foster Furcolo's bitterest enemies do not accuse him of the despotism for which the colonials always suspected George III's governors; and yet the Governor's Council remains, obstructing the chief executive, duplicating other posts and clogging bureaucratic channels. The counties, too, stayed on unchanged after the Revolution, and only inertia perpetuates their costly and relatively useless existence. Yet not since 1917 has a Constitutional Convention studied these antiques...