Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State, War and Navy were dead set against the kind of independence which Donovan proposed for an agency which would inevitably exercise great influence on foreign policy. They wanted the control. Opposition to Donovan's plan became so bitter that someone even slipped his memorandum to the Patterson-McCormick press. The New York Daily News howled that the Government intended to set up a "spy director," a U.S. Gestapo and in some manner turn the nation over to the sister of Justice Felix Frankfurter...
Pending the elections, a bitter, bloody political struggle would rage on inside Poland. Bevin and Modzelewski had lifted only a corner of the curtain of obscurity...
...Cornwall, Ontario, 40 carpenters quit their jobs because management did not provide enough fires to keep them warm in the bitter weather, but they returned to work next...
What Hearstpaper D'Ya Read? Then the editors of the Mirror got their early edition of the Sunday Journal-American -and gulped. Splashed across the top of its front page was a bitter headline...
...This" was the collective bargaining between Ford and the U.A.W. While bitter strikes spread across the nation, Ford negotiations had gone on almost unnoticed in an atmosphere of tense, tightfisted, but good-humored bargaining. Next morning Bugas and Leonard, trailed by aides, hustled into Detroit's swank Hotel Book-Cadillac and secreted themselves in the Ford suite on the eighth floor...