Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Eisenhower indoors at Thomasville, Ga.-when a violent new storm boiled up off the Louisiana coast. Mixing its Gulf moisture with the cold arctic air, it swept north and east, dumping the season's heaviest snowfall from Jackson, Miss, on up into Maine. Temperatures sank to a bitter subfreezing all along the path, sank lower in its wake...
Elected to the state senate in 1915, Harry Byrd led a bitter fight for pay-as-you-go road building as against bond financing, won in a referendum, carried on his model highway program after his election as governor in 1925. Governor Byrd pushed through a tough antilynch law, streamlined the state constitution. In the fight for adoption of his changes, he built the famed Virginia Democratic political organization that stands today as one of the nation's oldest and most successful-and Harry Byrd will continue to run it after his Senate retirement...
...Barisan Mountains, 40,000 troops and civilians gathered on a balmy tropical night last week to hear Lieut. Colonel Ahmad Husein proclaim a "revolutionary government with full sovereignty over all Indonesia." Designated Premier of the new state was Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, ex-Governor of the Bank of Indonesia and a bitter personal enemy of President Sukarno. Cried Sjafruddin: "It is with deep sorrow and sadness that we are compelled to raise the banner of challenge against our own head of state. We have talked and talked. Now we must...
...Guild's plan admittedly has its flaws; undoubtedly, it has its bitter antagonists. Yet it is not, as one committee member condescendingly put it, "almost a thing of the past." It will be unfortunate if a group designed to facilitate the necessary drama co-ordination will, by its bias, ignore the Opera Guild, and slight its proposal...
...famed Doria family, which traces its history to 12th century Genoa, owner (in Rome's Palazzo Doria) of one of the world's most celebrated private galleries (included: Velásquez' portrait of an earlier Pamphilj, Pope Innocent X); of arteriosclerosis; in Rome. A bitter antiFascist, who condemned Mussolini's war on Ethiopia, he suffered 15 years of mistreatment by Fascists, became wartime "underground governor" of Rome and, appointed by the Allies, the city's first postwar mayor...