Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common knowledge that he appeals to many of the less fortunate members of our society. However, it is also common knowledge that his strongest support comes from some of Mississippi's leading citizens. A more careful analysis of Ross Barnett will indicate that he is not a "bitter racist," but a benevolent, fair-minded Southern segregationist dedicated to helping the Southern Negro while maintaining Southern dignity and tradition...
...days when the interservice fighting for dollars got bitter, McNeil, a reserve World War II rear admiral (fiscal affairs), was accused of having a dark influence over his bosses, of unfairly favoring the Navy over the other services. But over the years, Pentagon brass, as well as congressional committees, learned that he cut dispassionately wherever he thought he saw fat. And his best defense against any outcry was that he knew more about budgetary details than anybody else...
...first nation to fall under Fascist guns, Ethiopia, with bitter memories of the League of Nations' ineffectually in coping with Mussolini in 1935, was quick to send troops to Korea under the U.N. flag in 1951. Generally siding with the West. Ethiopia has received in the last seven years $107 million in U.S. aid. But the Ethiopians never thought it was enough and grumbled about having to keep books on how they spent...
...slacks, sandals, open-throated sports shirt, he may loaf in the garden during nonworking intervals; if it is Sunday, he will stroll to the village pub (The Hoops) for a half-pint of bitter. More often of an afternoon, he will show a visitor about his property, explaining sculptured works in a soft, eager voice almost denuded of its Yorkshire burr, describing with a loving caress along a bronze flank why it takes two or three weeks of rubbing, gouging, sanding and polishing to finish a freshly cast figure: "It's the putting on of skin." In a corner...
...President's airport remark that "in my country the name Adenauer has come to symbolize the determination of the German people to remain strong and free," complained that it was interference in German politics. The pollsters predicted that Adenauer's electoral strength would soar; it was bitter medicine for der Alte's enemies, who predicted his political downfall three months ago during the tussle with Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...