Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Specifics. In the bitter aftermath of Budapest, world Communism desperately needs a new and recognizable success-and it is in the Middle East that such a success seems to beckon. Therefore, said Ike, spelling out the way U.S. collective-security planning had helped in Western Europe, Greece, Turkey and the Far East, "it is now essential that the U.S. should manifest through joint action of the President and the Congress our determination to assist those nations of the Mideast area which may desire that assistance." That was why he had come before them to request stand-by congressional authority...
...contributions. One Algerian objected that he did not want to take sides; his body was fished out of the Seine a few days later. Café owners who contributed to the National Liberation Front had their stocks smashed by Hadj supporters. In 1956, 86 Algerians were murdered in this bitter civil war in Paris, and the rival gangs celebrated New Year's Day with a fusillade that killed six more...
...mediocre season that owes much of its mediocrity to them, ratings remain a controversial, confusing means of doing imperfectly only part of what the TV advertiser needs done-and spreading unhappiness in the process. But until something better comes along, TV finds them indispensable. "I'm not bitter and I'm sure they're as honest as they can be," said one unemployed comic last week. "But it's like the story of the gambler who played the roulette wheel in this little town and kept losing all night, until a fellow came up and said...
Cold Hands. Here last week the new rector of the institution, spidery young Father Angelo Sappa, presided over a black, grey and white sea of 190 nuns from 39 orders. It was bitter cold, and the boiler broke down, but Theologian Sappa made a parable...
...Eagles had nothing left. The Crimson turned defense-minded but still dominated play to the extent of keeping it almost completely out of its own zone. Several times the crowd accorded enthusiastic applause to the varsity for each new turn in this defeat of its bitter cross-town rival