Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the advancement of his career (as distinguished from that of my former son-in-law [Producer] David O. Selznick, who never requested assistance from me) in the motion picture industry." Some Hollywood historians surmised last week that there was another motive. Back in 1952, Ikeman Mayer had a bitter quarrel with Edith and Bill Goetz, both Stevenson supporters. He preserved his wrath, never forgave or forgot their disobedience to his patriarchal wishes...
...After a bitter exchange of words, the School Committee agreed last night to let individual PTA groups use school buildings for their monthly meetings. But majority spokesman Mayor Edward Sullivan and committeeman James F. Fitzgerald emphatically refused to grant the same privileges to the city-wide PTA Council...
...Cambridge real estate salesman's $10-100 million scheme to build a super-structure over one-sixth of the Charles River Basin stirred up bitter controversy at a City Council hearing yesterday...
Analyzing the week's returns, Republicans were stung not only by cold statistics but by the bitter realization that matters will likely get worse before they get better. Dwight Eisenhower's prestige is at its lowest since 1954. Pollster George Gallup finds the normally Republican Midwest leaning Democratic (54% to 46%) in congressional choices for the first time in eleven years. Breaking a six-year preference, says Gallup, independent voters consider Democrats the prosperity party rather than Republicans (proDemocratic: 30%; pro-Republican: 25%). The G.O.P. also faces a mathematical disadvantage in next year's congressional elections...
...concerned to put his impoverished country on its feet than to stir trouble in the Middle East. But Nasser has increasingly resorted to the incendiary propaganda of the totalitarian dictator, has persistently used his radio Voice of the Arabs to incite the Palestinian refugees in Jordan, who brood in bitter idleness over their lost lands across the border in Israel...