Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opponents of U.M.T. had a potent spokesman, too. With typical disregard of what appeared to be popular approval, Ohio's Senator Bob Taft last week declared he would fight "conscription . . . to the bitter end." U.M.T., said Taft, was wasteful and obsolete. "Conscription was no insurance of victory in France, Italy, or Germany." It would improve neither the morals, discipline, nor health of U.S. youth. "The Army wants boys for twelve months consecutively because it wants to change their habits of thought, to make them soldiers, if you please, for the rest of their lives." It was unAmerican. "Militarism...
...year ago Mauldin was playing a hard game of footie with the far left. He made leftists happy with some speeches, turned out bitter cartoons about those who questioned Russia's motives. But now, says William Henry Mauldin...
...veto of both labor and tax bills, was less than ever in a frame of mind to accept Harry Truman's pronouncement that any piece of legislation was good, or bad for the country. The battle of Congress v. President, Republican v. Democrat, which would grow increasingly bitter, might stalemate some legislation still to be completed. The nation's foreign policy, already shaky on its bipartisan foundation, was an immediate case in point...
...Million. Later, in Seoul, Boy Scouts brought us bowls of bitter Korean tea in General Li Bum Suk's second-floor office. Looking alertly at us through his black, tortoise-rimmed glasses, General Li outlined his movement. "We Koreans have behind us 4,000 years of good history. The present situation is confused only because the people have forgotten their heritage. Our nation must have the strength to prevent invasion by another nation and we must build up our youth to this...
...dilapidated capital, Taiyuan. But he could not move against the Communists who now held almost three-fifths of the province. A lot of Communists had filtered into rich south Shansi when the Government withdrew troops for the attack on Yenan. "We traded a fat cow for a skeleton," say bitter men in Taiyuan. Shansi people used to admire...