Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months of waiting were over, the candidates had made their last pitch, the military disappeared into the barracks for a day. After one of the bitterest and bloodiest years in the country's turbulent history, some 1,200,000 Dominicans finally went to the polls last week for their second free election since 1924. Forecasters had bet on a close result. Instead, Moderate Joaquin Balaguer, 59, won in a landslide, defeating Leftist Juan Bosch, 56, by 745,700 votes to 487,600-almost the same margin by which Bosch himself won the presidency...
Near the speaker's stand in Georgetown's Queen Elizabeth Park, Negro Prime Minister Forbes Burnham threw both arms around his bitterest enemy, the Marxist ex-Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan. Moments later, the lights dimmed, a band struck up God Save the Queen, and in solemn midnight darkness the Union Jack, which had flown over British Guiana for 152 years, slid slowly down the pole-to be replaced by a new five-color (green, red, yellow, black, white) flag. Thus-with the Duke and Duchess of Kent looking on as Britain's official representatives-did the tiny...
...General Harry W. O. Kinnard stepped in and declared all of An Khe off limits to his men. Prices soon dropped back toward normal, the disease rates dipped. But the men of the Air Cav, out fighting in the jungles for weeks at a time in some of the bitterest, bloodiest battling of the war, had little to come home to. In March, the division's first cases of "battle fatigue" showed...
...present on the panel tended to agree that escape into early marriage is risky at best. One part-time secretary who was born illegitimate herself confessed she had yearned for security. A pretty cocktail waitress who was wed at 17 said, "I was marrying to get out of home." Bitterest of all was a girl who married at 17, is now in the process of getting divorced. "My parents trusted me too much," she said. "In a way, it's too bad giving kids too much time for things they're not ready for." For her, the future...
University of California students, University of Chicago Professor Hans Morgenthau, one of academe's bitterest Johnson baiters, reached for a preposterous historical parallel. The Administration's insistence on negotiating with Hanoi rather than directly with the Viet Cong, he averred, was "like George III of England saying he won't negotiate with Washington and Hamilton, only with Louis...