Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, at a year-end meeting of the nation's Governors at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., the talk that the President might step aside took on an uncomfortably bipartisan ring. A cloud of astonishingly bitter anti-Johnson sentiments arose from the 18 Democratic chief executives present. Blaming Johnson for defeats in November, the Governors castigated him for pressing certain unpopular and unwanted Great Society programs on the public, for displaying an insulting lack of interest in local campaigns and for letting the National Democratic Committee disintegrate into a useless organization. "Some of the people," said Illinois Governor Otto...
...Ludwig Erhard, his talented but luckless predecessor, who proclaimed last year that "the postwar era is over"?but failed to realize that his time had passed with it. Only a year after winning for himself and his party a major election victory, Erhard was unceremoniously pushed offstage in bitter political fighting that produced a five-week crisis in West Germany's government. When he left the Bundestag and took his leave of the Palais Schaumburg, where for three years he had ruled as Chancellor, Erhard was a lonely and dejected figure. No such emotions troubled flinty old Konrad Adenauer...
...polls in the usual manner. Since government by committee tends to pall on hyperactive politicians of the German sort, clashes are sure to arise both within each party and between them. Two of the ministries that went to the Christian Democrats, for example, will be manned by bitter enemies who are intent on each other's political demise...
Caught in Between. Trying to put Israel on the defensive again, Egypt sent two MIG-19s scrambling across its eastern border with Israel. In a bitter dogfight with two Israeli French-built Mirages-the first such fight in five years-the Egyptians lost at least one of the planes, as proved by Israeli photographs, and possibly both. Twenty-four hours later in Cairo, the Arab League's Defense Council called an urgent meeting for this week to discuss the growing tensions. Girding for more trouble, Israel planted mines along its bristling border with Jordan, swept the bleak desert with...
...election, if foreign policy is taken to mean the wisdom of being involved in Viet Nam." So said Australia's Prime Minister Harold Holt last week as he gambled his political future on his determination to keep Australia's 4,500 men in Viet Nam. In a bitter election campaign between Holt's Liberal-Country Party coalition and the Labor Party of Arthur Calwell, Australia's Vietniks turned out in full force, organizing the most violent demonstrations ever staged against an Australian political leader...