Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After three months of bitter feuding, Harvard that fall signed the first labor contract in its history, recognizing two AFL locals as sole bargaining agents for the dining hall workers. But an "inside" union, the Harvard Employees Representative Association, challenged the AFL for the loyalty of the buildings and grounds workers, and the Administration's efforts to preserve a neutral stand during this dispute became more difficult as the year went...
...September, 1940, President Conant urged undergraduates to remember that the best way to serve the country at that point was by finishing their education. But the distractions of the War became harder to ignore as '41 began its senior year; the neutrality debate within the Harvard community became bitter, and more and more the outside world intruded upon what academic calm remained. During a mass registration day in October 4700 students and Faculty members registered for the Selective Service...
...confusing for many of our people." Yet, strangely enough, the President himself has contributed to that confusion. For weeks now, Administration policymakers on Viet Nam have seemed obsessed, to the exclusion of almost everything else, with the Buddhist crisis. To be sure, the U.S. can hardly ignore the bitter feud between Premier...
...against other segments of society rather than reconcile the factions. Laudably, the Ministry helped set up preschool training centers under Project Head Start, badgered reluctant state officials to accept federal anti-poverty funds, worked with secular civil rights organizations to register Negro voters. Ministry leaders also actively organized a bitter and so far unsuccessful strike against cotton plantations, and encouraged the dramatic squatters' invasion of the Greenville Air Force Base by local Negroes last winter...
Heath, the first Conservative leader to come from a middle-class background, succeeded former Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home in July, 1965, after a bitter intra-party struggle...