Word: bitterly
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...several Democratic dark horses, the brightest is Representative Samuel Stratton, 49, an aggressive campaigner who has repeatedly beaten the G.O.P. in a traditionally Republican district, and would likely give Rockefeller the toughest race. But since Stratton lost a bitter fight for the Democratic senatorial nomination in 1964 to Robert Ken nedy, whose subsequent election made him the party's top panjandrum in the state, Stratton's hopes of organization endorsement are slim. According to some readings, in fact, Kennedy would rather see Rockefeller win again in 1966 than have a strong Democratic Governor to challenge his control...
...take its place along with Japan as a bulwark against Chinese Communist expansion in Asia. In the talks, he would gently insist that India must take steps to control its population growth, revamp its outmoded agricultural methods, and find some modus vivendi with Pakistan so that the two bitter foes do not expend their economic resources arming against each other...
...sense, the vote was a rebuke to President Urho K. Kekkonen, 65' two-time chief executive and five-time Premier, whose open courting of Soviet good will rankles many Finns, who remember two bitter wars against the Russians. But more important, the vote was an indication of the country's changing voting pattern: as more people leave farm and forest for jobs in Finland's burgeoning factories, they are switching to the urban-oriented Social Democrats, who rank as a middle-of-the-road party and promise to do something about inflation (up 4% last year...
...parlay-voo tradition of battlefield ballads composed by the boys themselves. Sometimes ironic, often obscene, and almost always derived from some other melody, these songs are refreshingly free of the jingoistic slush of the homeside ditties. Among their number are the pornographic They Were Only Playing Leapfrog, the hauntingly bitter. D-Day Dodgers, and that comprehensive speculation on the genitalia of the German High Command which was sung to the tune of the Colonel Bogey March, Hitler Had Only...
Next year bitter primary fights will almost certainly weaken the party's chances in contests for attorney general, senator, and governor. Not since the legendary strong-man leadership of the late Governor Paul Dever has the party been spared from ruinous infighting...