Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they could not have got in a quiet, back-room talk. The liberals retorted that all they really wanted-besides Kuchel's victory -was headline recognition that they, too, speak for the Republican Party. And Styles Bridges disappeared back behind the scenes, pleased that he had prevented a bitter split yet protected his own brand of pre-Eisenhower Republicanism in its last important redoubt...
...necessity for extra security precautions, such as checking food with Geiger counters (to guard against attempts to poison him with radioactive substances) or the telephone bomb threat that delayed his airplane out of Chicago. In fact, he appeared even philosophical as, from place to place, he was dogged by bitter Hungarian and Ukrainian pickets, who threw stones, snowballs and eggs (no direct hits) in disregard of President Eisenhower's call for a show of courtesy. At first, he thought that "it is like a comedy," but by the time he landed in San Francisco, where huge mobs of pickets...
...estimated at something like $100 million, and his hard-knuckled grip on U.S. industry extends over a $2 billion empire of iron and steel, railroads, shipping, coal and paint. Cy Eaton picked up his empire by lone-wolf feats of financial derring-do that have brought him more bitter court fights, proxy wars and Government investigations than almost any businessman of his time...
Grand Old Actor. The essence of history is hindsight, and it is difficult to read Schlesinger's account of labor's rise, e.g., the bitter, bloody Teamsters strike in Minneapolis, without reflecting on the monstrous extremes of power which the downtrodden of yesterday have reached. A future historian, not so solid as Schlesinger on the do-gooding glamour of it all. may yet weigh the memorable reforms accomplished by the New Deal against its ominous drive toward the welfare state...
Seldom had a government been so thoroughly housecleaned between midnight and dawn. But to Castro, flushed with victory, the exodus was a bitter cheat. Arriving in Santiago, he took the big (5,000-man) Moncada fortress from the surrendering army without firing a shot, declared Santiago the provisional capital of Cuba as reward for its support. In Las Villas, ruthless, Red-loving Che Guevara executed the last Batista holdouts...