Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Come." Dissension has seeped down through NORAD's ranks. Result: interservice rivalry in the best bitter Pentagon tradition. Said a NORAD Air Force officer last week: "Years ago in the Air Force I learned to hate the Army. I've had an Army officer run his fingers along the cable of my plane and say sharply, 'Dirt.' And when I said 'Sir, that is preservative,' he snarled, 'Clean it before the next inspection.' " At the same time, an Army officer on NORAD's staff complained that Air Force influence over NORAD...
...U.S.S.R. hardened its line on summit talks, too. One day last week the Kremlin's Khrushchev sent a bitter letter to President Eisenhower rejecting the U.S.'s latest offer to begin joint technical studies on disarmament, adding a new attack on nuclear tests "causing an ever-present and ever-mounting danger to the health and life of the people . . . from radiation hazards." President Eisenhower prodded right back that K. really ought to begin technical studies: "I am unhappy that valuable time is now being wasted...
...Vienna before World War I, the maddest celebrity in town was Oskar Kokoschka. His morbid plays dramatizing strife between the sexes set off bitter café debates; his portraits turning the light on the psychological "inner life" of his subjects outraged complacent burghers. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne (whose assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 triggered World War I), gave it as his opinion that "this fellow's bones ought to be broken in his body." After the war, which dealt Kokoschka a head wound and a bayoneting, the artist moved to the front rank of avant...
...trade in mercy on the bloody landscape of the Europe of the 19403, is a man named Joel Brand. He told his story to a German journalist, Alex Weissberg, who put it down baldly and brutally. Fine writing would be an offense against the appalling facts of this bitter memoir...
Fidel Castro's rebels reeled back in bitter confusion last week, but Cuba's civil war was not yet ended-and both sides knew...