Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bowles got the job. He made enemies, but not nearly so many as testy Leon Henderson. He lost friends, but not nearly so many as Prentiss Brown. One of his most persistent foes, Nebraska's Republican Senator Kenneth S. Wherry, with whom he has had some bitter public debates, once complimented him: "Big Boy, you're the best salesman...
...strike . . . spells bitter privation and want for the families of three thousand of our workers. And it deprives the Company of today's profits and the customers of tomorrow. It slows down the business of the whole community. And it fans the flames of class antagonism and makes enemies out of old friends. ... In the name of Stamford, we call upon [labor and management] to measure up to their grave responsibility...
...since the Allied victory in Europe had Francisco Franco seemed so confident and cocky. The bitter Bevin-Vishinsky debate at UNO offered new life to his Government. British Laborites expressed sympathy for the Spanish Republic, looked with favor upon the monarchy. But Britain's Government preferred Franco to a renewal of civil war. Fighting might result in a radical republic, an extension of Russia's influence into the western Mediterranean...
...Office said that "no agreement of views" had been reached with Moscow about disposition of Manchurian industry. Meanwhile Chiang was having trouble with right-wing, anticoalition elements in the Kuomintang. Uncertainty in Manchuria had brought them into open opposition. The agreement for army unity might provoke them to a bitter last stand...
...Jews were bitter. Publicly they protested the return of the "terrorist leader" who had instigated the bloody prewar riots of 1936-1939. That night Jews marked his homecoming with another of those terrorist gestures that punctuate Palestine's current history...