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Word: bitterness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adams House touch-football enthusiasts unveiled a fast team at Soldiers Field yesterday when they hung a 42 to 6 tag on a bitter, battling, rugged Lowell six in the opening touch game of the seasons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gold Coasters Defeat Bellboys in Touch Ball | 10/20/1949 | See Source »

...What Atomic Blitz?" All of this made the Navy's bitterness understandable without making right what its bitter men said. Even so staunch a friend of the Navy as the New York Times's Annapolis-trained Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin wrote that he himself did not consider the cutbacks in the Navy program disastrous. Baldwin added drily that "Some of the Navy's interest in morality as applied to strategic bombing seems new-found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Revolt of the Admirals | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...sighs of relief in Honolulu at the news of the settlement were tempered by the bitter "What next?" of people who knew that Party Liner Bridges, with his union firmly implanted in the islands' rich pineapple and sugar industries, as well as across its shipping link to the U.S., could make life miserable again whenever he chose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Here It Is | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...trim little Irish woman whose scruples about birth control have lately begun to complicate their marriage. His children, a daughter 18 and a son 16, are a smart, self-possessed pair of youngsters who answer respectfully when he speaks to them, make moderated replies to his bitter wisecracks, and seem to him to have recently become large, mature and strange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Confessions of Joe | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...overcome. The threat to peace of the American home posed by even a relatively small number of women trained in litigation is an imponderable which must weigh heavily on our minds. The picture of a breakfast table transformed into a court room, with husband and wife engaged in bitter legal debate over the eggcups, is almost too frightful to conceive. But, in spite of the great danger involved, the fair-minded observer must conclude that the Law School's step has been well taken. Joint Instruction--never must the word "co-education" sully that happy arrangement--now envelopes the entire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Important Decision | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

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