Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies have told me that dismantling would be stopped only if I satisfy the Allied desire for security," he said. "Does the Socialist Party want dismantling to go on to the bitter end?" Amid rattling desk tops and cries of "Pfui!" gaunt, fiery-eyed Socialist Boss Kurt Schumacher called Adenauer a liar, shouted: "Chancellor of the Allies...
...Germany is desperately short of housing (it needs an estimated 8,000,000 two-room apartments). More than a third of the West Germans live in close, degrading quarters, whole families cramped into fetid, single rooms, the sick and infirm bedded beside the children. Nerves wear thin, minds grow bitter in the stifling intimacy of want. Among the demoralized, cheap vice grows weedlike and ugly. In bomb-battered Essen, one of the first businesses to recover was the red-light district: harlots' row was rebuilt while the rest of the city lay in rubble...
...recently visited Germany, the people showed a genuine, spontaneous warmth toward America's representative which surprised and gratified Acheron and his advisers. But the mass of Germans remain doubtful and suspicious; a relapse in West Germany's economic health, or even its failure to improve, may incite bitter resentment and political collapse...
...Army's atomic energy program. The new commission inherited a uranium plant at Oak Ridge, military laboratories at Los Angeles, a research program mainly directed towards weapon development, and a small supply of atomic bombs. David E. Lilienthal was appointed chairman; the Senate confirmed his appointment after a bitter and vindictive fight...
...have color television now." This seemingly innocent proposition, proffered to the Federal Communications Commission by the Columbia Broadcasting System, has thrown the whole television industry into a frenzy of activity, alarms and bitter accusations...