Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burning (even fire stations), looting, shooting and overall rioting. But how long could the Black man sing the same old song, "WE SHALL OVERCOME." He in many instances has changed that tune to "WE SHALL OVER RUN" and wherever his beautiful black hands strike a note, the cold, bitter, angry music leaves a melody that lingers...
Since Memorial Day, Fulbright has been combing hill and hollow across Arkansas for votes in next week's Democratic preferential primary. Normally a shoo-in, he is involved this year in a bitter, four-cornered fight. Last week at the annual Mount Nebo chicken fry near Dardanelle, Ark., one critic got the biggest cheer of the day when she attacked his absenteeism from his home state. Minutes later, Fulbright himself drew only lukewarm applause...
...leader has urged union members to join Negroes and white liberals in a protest vote for Bobby K. Hayes. The object would be to take enough votes away from Fulbright to force him into a runoff with Jim Johnson. What if Fulbright should lose such a runoff? Said another bitter Ne gro leader: "We don't care that much." Probably, though, a majority of Arkansans still do. What they want is more response from Bill Fulbright-perhaps some of the down-home concern that now impels the scholarly Senator to pop into his car alone and disappear for days...
...unusual sensation of standing upright without flinching. Thus, after two years and 17 days of simultaneous fighting and negotiating, the Korean War came to an end just 15 years ago this week. The U.S. suffered 140,000 casualties, including 34,000 dead, in the more than three years of bitter fighting that followed the North Korean invasion of South Korea, but it kept the South from being overrun...
...longest truces in the modern history of warfare. Since its signing, the Military Armistice Commission, composed of U.N. observers and U.S. and North Korean officials, has met 273 times at Panmunjom, right in the middle of the Demilitarized Zone set up by the truce. The meetings have always been bitter and hostile, but lately they have taken on an even harsher tone as the result of North Korea's seizure of the Pueblo and its increased attempts at infiltration into the South...