Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Line. By suggesting a plan that would end such bounties, Nixon angered no one more than his fellow Republicans in Congress. G.O.P. House Leader Gerald Ford told Nixon: "Our people have been waiting for eight years to get in front of the line on postal patronage. And they are bitter that a Republican White House wants to turn off the spigot before they have even had a drink...
...this city's history." Yorty, normally so jaunty when things break right for him, was no Struttin' Sam on election night. Surrounded by bodyguards, he made a perfunctory appearance before his supporters, said unwontedly little, and left early. Nor, indeed, was there much to celebrate in the bitter post-election atmosphere. Unmistakably, the prime components of Yorty's victory were crass appeals to racism and fear...
Perhaps now we are a bitter people, but only because we feel that the world was, and is still, unjust toward us and that the "four bigs" took part in chasing us from our country. Neither Nasser nor Dayan nor the four bigs, who after killing the victim are trying now to revive him, can give peace to the region. Peace comes with justice, and justice means our return home...
Though race was never mentioned, Bradley's technique was all too clear: "In every single newspaper photograph, in every single television appearance during this bitter campaign, Mr. Bradley has managed openly and brazenly to look like a Negro...
...They drafted model petitions and form letters to Congressmen, and sent them out to 120 student newspapers in all 50 states. Simultaneously, at the University of Denver, Sophomore David Shapin, 19, organized 200 of his fellow students and began corresponding with interested students, college newspaper editors and Congressmen. Bitter editorials began appearing in the campus press, and letters by the thousands rained on Congressmen and airline executives. Both the National Student Association and the Campus Americans for Democratic Action, the student arm of the liberal political organization, sent delegates to carry their protest to the CAB. Parents, who like...