Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...works, has 142,000 students, thus is twice as large as the nine-campus University of California. Some of these colleges, such as freewheeling San Francisco State and San Diego State, justifiably claim that they are better than many a public university elsewhere-and, in fact, are bitter about their lack of university status. Pennsylvania maintains a strong system of 13 state colleges (including famed Slippery Rock), which have grown from 15,979 students ten years ago to 47,987 today...
President Johnson's ensuing actions were a final-and belated-admission that the U.S. cannot, in fact, easily afford both guns and butter. Still, the President's bitter medicine contains no long-range or permanent remedies for the payments deficit. Temporarily effective though it should be, last week's package of controls attacks selected symptoms rather than the fundamental causes. At an unknowable price, it buys extra time for the nation to cope with the real problems: inflation arid the massive federal deficit...
...permit blacks to negotiate with whites as equals. Though generally pessimistic about the prospects for integration, Curle sees such a greater sense of black identity and confidence as a prerequisite. In support, he again points to the underdeveloped world, this time to Kenya. There, in the late 1950's bitter racial fighting preceded independence. But Kenya's new national dignity permitted the reconciliation of the British and their former colonials. And Jomo Kenyata, at first bitterly condemned by the British for leading the notorious Mau-Maus, now sports a white cabinet minister and has turned into one of Africa...
Thirteen department units came across the street from the Cambridge Fire Station to fight the fire. Hampered by the bitter cold and by what they called the "structural unsoundness" of the building, firemen stayed through the afternoon to extinguish smoldering embers...
...summer of 1964, when he was not campaigning in Humphrey's "Happy Warrior" plane, he spent working in the struggle to seat the MFDP at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City. The extremely bitter fight alienated him from most of the black activists whom he had been friendly with in SNCC and CORE...