Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back from a European tour last week, Bowles boosted the impartial character of the U.N. drive, poked at U.S. (and Soviet) aid programs as "political": "[Recipients] are bitter at having to swallow the hammer & sickle or the American eagle. . . ." It was a bumbling beginning, but the American people, whose tax dollars had provided billions of unconditional foreign aid, could be expected to chip in again...
India and Pakistan's bitter wrangle over Kashmir has lasted more than a month at Lake Success. Both have gone over & over the same ground, disagreed, referred the dispute back to the Security Council, postponed meetings; they suspended their debates after Gandhi's death, resumed private discussions. Last week, for the first time, the Security Council heard from a native of harried Kashmir, one who had come 8,000 miles to make his speech...
...defense asked witness Lieut. Colonel Austin J. Montgomery how he could be sure the word Wada used was "concern." Said lean, bitter Survivor Montgomery: "I consider myself pretty much of an authority on Mr. Wada's English expressions. We called them Waddisms." The court also got superlative evidence of the American soldier's ability to wisecrack. Through parched lips, American prisoners had muttered: "Wada, Wada everywhere, and not a drop to drink...
...speech was a bitter pill for the millions of British miners, railwaymen, shipyard and textile workers and others who have been clamoring for higher wages. It was bitter, too, for Trades Union Congress leaders. T.U.C. men would not swallow the dose without angry protests when they met Attlee and his cabinet this week; some were already muttering that they would not be able to hold the rank & file in line...
Street Fight. Last week, in a bitter circulation war, France Dimanche was within 100,000 subscribers of its rival Samedi Soir, biggest (650,000 a week) paper in France. Max Corre had helped found Samedi Soir and thought he had enough tricks to lick his old paper at his own game. In weeks of racing to get on the streets a day ahead of the other, their press deadlines had been juggled three times. Now, under a truce, they will come out the same day-Wednesday...