Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bitter Cake. Thus death came to U Aung San, young (33), able leader of the new Burmese nation, and seven fellow Cabinet ministers. Once a Japanese collaborator (like most Burmese leaders), little, bullet-headed Aung San had later helped the British organize a resistance movement among Burmans. He assumed the title Bogyok (General). As head of the A.F.P.F.L. (AntiFascist People's Freedom League), he had risen to power by staging civil servants' strikes, teachers' strikes, police strikes. (Said some British critics, after his death, "Since the A.F.P.F.L. cooked the cake [of violence], no wonder they have...
...favor of participation) "The Paris meetings will result in requests for help so high that the U.S. Congress will throw up its hands. Then Europe, disillusioned and bitter, will turn to us. So let us play along with the Paris conference, get the requests up as high as possible, and put the blame for failure...
...help the Plan Quinqnenal. His urging was believed to be partly responsible for last week's lifting by the Central Bank of all restrictions against the entry of foreign capital into Argentina. There was even talk of seeking a U.S. loan. For Peron, this remedy would have a bitter taste. He has boasted that by the end of his six-year term "not an inch of soil, not a breath of air" in Argentina would be alien-owned. Now foreign capital was to receive "the same treatment and rights enjoyed by Argentine capital...
Whether she wills it or not, Eva's reign undeniably has its impact on Argentine politics. Only last week, with the First Lady a safe 6,000 miles away, a bitter debate over her trip led two deputies to send challenges to duel to a Radical Party colleague. Eva's enemies have a way of disappearing from the Government. Her family and friends are equally apt to hang on through thick & thin. Eva's brother is now Perón's personal secretary; her eldest sister Elisa is virtually the political boss...
...Aircraft Co. into a $1,600,000 profit). But he was stiff-necked in his dealings with employees. The C.I.O. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union, which was heavily sprinkled with Communist leaders, was just as tough as President Deeds. Last year their mutual toughness resulted in a bitter 20½-week strike which bled both sides white. The bitterness lingered...