Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitter ideological war between Communism and democracy, too many Americans forget what the Communists never let others forget-that democracy in the U.S. is far from perfect. Last week those Americans got a jolting reminder from beefy, deep-voiced A. Philip Randolph, president of the sleeping car porters' union...
...from 67 nations (including 55 U.N. members) could look out last week at lofty, snowcapped peaks as they argued about lofty principles for world freedom of the press. As usual when good, bad & indifferent fellows get together, not all the debates were on an Olympian plane; there was much bitter name-calling about press warmongering, censorship, monopoly and suppression...
High winds, bitter cold, and impending darkness put an anti-climactical end to yesterday's golf match against Boston College with the Crimson team leading slightly at the end of nine holes...
...attitude toward basic American principles-notably freedom of the press-leaves the American veteran bitter. It is noteworthy that press censorship in Japan has been used mainly to forward MacArthur's political career, not the interests of any so-called security...
...Fire Extinguisher? President Harry Truman's words, committing the U.S. to see the fight against Communism through to the bitter end, heartened antiCommunists. Greece's Premier Themistocles Sophoulis called the speech "a beacon of hope." But many Europeans, who had expected the U.S. to draw a geographic line against Communist expansion and back it with a military guarantee, were disappointed and wondered what could happen next. Wrote the London Times: "If the American Congress and people, already excited and alarmed, do not respond promptly and in full to [this] appeal for practical measures, more harm than good...