Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatic election meeting which culminated weeks of bitter inter-club dispute, Norman William Smith, Jr. '58 defeated Thomas A. Stalker '58 last night for the Presidency of the HYRC by a vote...
Woolly summer fogs and bitter March nor'easters sometimes hold up even the U.S. mail boats that ply among the 172 islands of the San Juan group at the north end of Puget Sound, but nature seldom stays Dr. Malcolm Heath, 43, from his appointed rounds. By airplane, ferry, small boat and (in far-from-rare emergencies) Coast Guard cutter or seaplane, Dr. Heath brings a frontier brand of modern medicine to the islands' 7,000 residents and summer visitors. He is the only doctor in the islands and one of the most remarkable G.P.s anywhere...
...created Mission Corp. as a holding company for Standard's stock in Tidewater and Skelly Oil. So Getty started to buy into Mission. By 1936 Getty owned 46% of Mission's stock, by far the biggest share, and elected all but one of his directors in a bitter proxy fight. That gave him control of Skelly Oil, but not quite enough to pocket Tidewater. After three years of knee-and-gouge battle, Tidewater made peace with
Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian-made movies-a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life (TIME...
...inevitable court of inquiry. His design for the girders, it seems, had just come to him in conversation. Holes in the castings had been plugged with "Beaumont Egg," a sort of crude metal paste. For once the public had found the right scapegoat. Bouch died soon afterwards, a ruined, bitter, ostracized man; his widow took to drink and married a sea captain. Authors Prebble and Kendrick both flatter the modern reader with their implicit assumption that this is a more enlightened age-but there is room for doubt. When Lisbon's walls came tumbling down, 18th century man sought...