Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 22--The U.N. tonight suspended for three days its bitter Middle East debate pending mediation efforts by King Saud of Saudi Arabia...
Former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development Trevor Gardner, who was in charge of the Air Force ballistic-missile program, was bitter in his memory of the tri-service rocket development that led the Army, Navy and Air Force to compete more for headlines against one another than for technological superiority over the Russians. Said Gardner: "We have presently at least nine ballistic-missile programs, all competing for roughly the same kind of facilities, the same kind of brains, the same kind of engines and the same public attention." Among the loudest of the critics were...
...Mealy Eye." During the years in Paris, Philip's mother and father drifted gradually apart, each tragically confused and lost in memories of a futile past that could not be regained. His mother retired to a sanatorium in Germany; his father moved to Monte Carlo to nurse bitter memories until his death in 1944. At the age of nine, because his ardently Anglophile father insisted his son should be brought up as a proper Englishman, young Philip was shipped off to England to be reared by his mother's mother, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven...
Silence in Church? From Swedish women, accustomed to equality (only military service, the ministry and the governorship of counties still are banned to them), there came immediate and bitter reaction. By last week some 75 women - among them: 53-year-old Member of Parliament Sigrid Ekendahl, 47-year-old Agda Rossel. delegate to the U.N. Commission for Women's Rights -had declared themselves no longer members of their church. (Since 1952 Swedes have been permitted to leave the state church merely by signing a form stating their intention.) Leader of the women's protest was Esther Lutteman...
Ever since April 1954, when 2,800 United Auto Workers walked out of Wisconsin's Kohler Co. over a contract dispute, company and union have been in a bitter stalemate. During the strike, Kohler is operating its plumbing-fixture plant with about 2,000 non-union employees, whom it steadfastly promises to keep on the job even when the fight is settled. Just as firmly, the U.A.W. sets as its price for peace the promise that all the strikers will be rehired, and at one point it tried to organize a nationwide boycott of Kohler products. Last week, handing...