Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bitter Words...
...Regarding your review of my book The Bitter Woods [Jan. 31]: the book is very frankly a study of "rational men doing a skilled job" at all echelons. These include my father. For a lot of blood-and-guts stories, look elsewhere. Since I tried to make The Bitter Woods readable, I would be disappointed if it did indeed resemble an "exercise at a war college." However, I remind you that this is no treatise on toilet training for infants...
...controversial decisions. He was charged with "coddling the Communists" when he blocked a New York City teacher-loyalty campaign in the 1950s, and he was even more the target of acrimony when he ordered the integration of hostile all-white districts in 1963. But after last fall's bitter, 36-day New York City teacher strike, he was the only major participant to emerge with his reputation intact. It was Allen's plan to place a state trustee in charge of a troubled experimental district that eventually brought the long strike...
...Europe would have seemed like a wholly improbable nightmare. Not any more. A tax scheme, originated by France and rapidly spreading throughout the Common Market and Scandinavia, has started an increasingly bitter skirmish between the U.S. and its Euro pean trading partners. Officials have ex changed threats of reprisals and counterreprisals, and no solution is anywhere in sight...
Five leading drugmakers swallowed a bitter pill last week. In a surprise move, they offered to pay $120 million to settle treble-damage claims against them for allegedly rigging the price of a widely used antibiotic, tetracycline. While proposing the settlement, the five companies-American Cyanamid, Chas. Pfizer, Bristol-Myers, Upjohn and Squibb Beech-Nut-asserted that they "have not violated the antitrust laws...