Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state assembly in 1949, got himself elected a year later to the first of two terms in Congress, where he fought doggedly for California's claim on tide-lands oil. Looking, as always, for bigger things, he took on Republican Senator Tom Kuchel in 1954, lost in a bitter contest. He practiced law for the next seven years, then decided in 1961 to challenge the incumbent mayor, genial but colorless Norris Poulson. Sam shaved off the mustache he had worn since he was 17 ("I always wanted to look older") and literally rode into office on trash. A major...
KHARTOUM. Charlton Heston pulls on still another heroic hat as British General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon, with Laurence Olivier as the Moslem, Mahdi, in a Cinerama version of the bitter 317-day siege of Khartoum...
...After a bitter twelve-day floor fight, the House last week produced a fair-housing bill that gave the Johnson Administration several slices less than half a loaf. The President wanted a law that would forbid racial discrimination in the sale or rental of all housing in the U.S. The House balked at such a sweeping measure. It voted to exempt individual owners who make no more than two sales a year and landlords who rent buildings with no more than four units and live on the premises. The bill thus covers 23 million of the nation...
...Daniels says that Lucy visited the Little White House at Warm Springs, Ga., on several occasions. In fact, though her presence was unpublicized at the time, she was with Roosevelt there on the day he died-April 12, 1945. To the very last, according to Daniels, Mrs. Roosevelt was "bitter and jealous of Lucy...
...scene in which he wields a broken bottle to make his agent grovel, and a reprise in which Davis crawls across a restaurant floor to shine Lawford's shoes. There is a semifinal glimpse of the doomed genius staggering through city streets, climaxed by a moment of bitter glory when he blows his heart through a horn and dies. His ailment is never precisely named, though he coughs a lot whenever prejudice crowds...