Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just who was more surprised was not clear. In eleven bitter months the local lost almost half its membership to an independent union. A back-to-work movement had put 6,000 men at A-C's benches (more than half the normal strength) before the strike ended. Workers lost an estimated $20 million in wages. The company lost $65 million in production.* The union paid out more than $100,000 in strike benefits...
WASHINGTON, March 27--Amid bitter charges by Senator Tobey (R-NH) that it was opening the way for "a national scandal," the Senate approved and sent back to the House tonight a bill to kill rationing and price control of sugar next October...
...employees. The order is couched in stark terms of treason and sedition and proposes to weed out the disloyal elements in the Civil Service. Hopefully flavored with the axiom that all the men serving a government must be faithful, the current tests seem to be the product of a bitter witch hunt rather than the outgrowth of natural security measures...
Ambassador to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh headed home to report, Washington was in the midst of bitter debate. Harry Truman would need Marshall's considerable prestige to balance the practical and emotional arguments against his course. Questions came from left & right...
...Declaration of War." The sharpest, most revealing reaction came from bowed and bitter Italy, a critical testing ground for democracy's powers of resistance-and offense. From Rome, TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes reported: "There was no doubt this time that the U.S. means business. Wrote Rome's conservative Risorgimento Liberate: 'We are confronted with a declaration of war, limited to the ideological plane but nonetheless categorical.' Christian Democratic Party leaders reason that if the U.S. is backing George of Greece despite the character of his regime, it will go much further in support of the Christian...