Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there a case against David Lilienthal? Thus far his principal opponents-rallying around Tennessee's Senator McKellar-had been rabid anti-New Dealers, anti-Semites, bitter foes of Government control, or men who insisted that the Atomic Energy Commission chairman should be above the suspicion they themselves had cast. Their case had been based on politics, prejudice and pork-barreling.* Last week Ohio's Senator Robert Taft thought he had other grounds for opposition...
...legislative pudding of his own, was solemnly aghast at the pungent recipe concocted by his old friend Ball. No more than half of Ball's measures would ever be accepted by the Senate committee. The industry-wide bargaining and closed-shop prohibitions would almost certainly be dumped. The bitter pill would be sugarcoated...
...Frachon could not get away. As Communist boss of the Confederation General du Travail, he was directing one of the most massive and delicate operations in French labor history. His problem was to maneuver the C.G.T.'s six million members so as to take maximum political advantage of the bitter discontent arising from high living costs. The delicacy arose from an inhibition familiar to all Communist leaders: Frachon must not let his workers' drive for higher wages disrupt Russia's worldwide grand strategy. For example, anything approaching a Communist-led general strike in France would force a premature showdown...
That Trotsky Again. Millions of Frenchmen scented violence in the bitter wind. Socialist Premier Ramadier spent hours in his office neither reading nor writing?just tugging at his beard and staring out of the window. His biggest scare came when the rightist Parti Republicain de la Liberte scheduled a monster mass meeting at the Salle Wagram. Communists promptly called a meeting at the same place. Ramadier mobilized 25,000 police and soldiers, forced both parties to call off their demonstrations...
...pressure against the line, whipped up by Communist propaganda and a bitter winter, is growing. There are thousands like 46-year-old Marguerite Saulnier, flower-shop assistant, who says: "Of course, we must get higher wages. What's the good of talking about cutting prices by 5%? In my own store we raised prices by 10% before cutting them five. Anyway, prices would have to be halved before I could buy the proper food for my two children." And like Andre Fourgon, 28, a furniture mover from Lyons: "We ought to make up our minds about the Communists?either make...