Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilson's freewheeling comments brought him plenty of drubbings from Congress and the press, but through the bitter days he kept his own sense of humor intact. "The price of progress is trouble," he once remarked, "-and I must be making lots of progress." The turning point probably came after Ike himself reproved Wilson for saying that the National Guard was a hideout for draft-dodgers during the Korean war. Wilson's wife Jessie promptly cracked right back at the President. She was "indignant" she said. "I think the President should have stood back of Mr. Wilson instead...
...have a chance, he must not be disarmed diplomatically and intellectually." Bevan seemed utterly frank. He said he had heard rumors that he was taking this line only because he wanted to be Foreign Secretary. "Hear, hear," a voice cried. Said Nye plaintively: "That is a pretty bitter thing to say about me. I would never do anything I did not believe...
After seven years of often bitter debate, the Federal Communications Commission said last week that it will "consider" applications from any television station that wants to take a try at pay-as-you-see TV. FCC opened the door to all the many pay-TV systems now being developed instead of okaying only one or two, as telecasters had expected. Each system thus will scramble to sign up stations for its service and to corner the limited supply of performing talent and first-run movies. This may pinch the viewer; since his set can be adjusted to receive only...
Enter the Monk. Laughing satire soon gave way to bitter invective in the growing passion for reform. The unity of Christendom had been precarious for centuries before the Reformation. The marvel is, suggests Durant, that with its half-dozen-odd principal nations all out of step-in time, in psychology, in power, in learning-the Roman authority survived as long as it did. Italy was not only the home of the papacy, it was the source and cradle of European civilization itself-sophisticated, modern, even decadent, when England and Germany were still medieval, while France and Spain were somewhere midway...
Each year about four hundred students from abroad enter Harvard, and their cold reception has left many of them bitter and disillusioned. Last spring a number of undergraduates shook off their Cambridge lethargy and awoke to the tragic lack of contact and understanding between foreign and American students...