Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispute was sharp and bitter, and for a time the British, having lost, darkly muttered threats of trade-war reprisal. But as the Common Market showed every sign of flourishing, with once-reluctant French and West German industrialists delighted by the prospect of a tariff-free market of 168 million people, the stakes became too high for sniping. And the British decided that if they couldn't lick 'em, and wouldn't join 'em, they would try another tack. With the inspired doggedness that characterizes British diplomacy at its best, the British set to work...
Almost all political experts expected Socialism to dominate European politics after World War II. Socialism did have its fling in Britain and its hour as part of coalition regimes in France, but in recent years Western Europe's trend has been increasingly conservative. Bitter over being out of power, the Socialist parties, too doctrinally dogmatic to fit in with the current prosperity, too inclined toward neutralism to fit in with the realities of the cold war, are now being rent by dispute. Since their economic doctrines no longer appeal, left-wingers among them have been agitating for a softer...
...strike was called in Montreal by 74 French-language TV producers, finally settled after 68 bitter days-while CBC President Alphonse Ouimet collapsed of a heart attack...
...BITTER HARVEST (313 pp.)-Edited by Edmund Stillman, introduction by François Bondy-Praeger...
...animosity toward Nixon harbored by his opponents has long been bitter and somewhat mystifying. In this biography, already distinguished for having drawn the wrath of Chief Justice Earl Warren (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), New York Herald Tribune Reporter Earl Mazo recalls that when Nixon gave the 1954 commencement address at Whittier College, two separate receiving lines were necessary-for those who were ready to shake Nixon's hand and for those who refused to. This book, which is basically friendly toward Nixon, may switch some readers from the non-handshaking to the handshaking column. But most of all, what...