Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once a day? Is the sento association trying to commit wholesale murder of babies?" Declared Mrs. Mumeo Oku, the vocal chairwoman of the Tokyo Housewives Association: "These men must be out of their minds. How could they think of turning us women, who are their best clients, into their bitterest enemies...
...longest, bitterest and most expensive trials in business history, a California jury had watched a battle between a $700 million corporation and an ex-employee for 97 days of court sessions. The ex-employee, Emmett Steele, 45, former director of military relations of California's widespread Litton Industries, charged in a civil suit that he had helped to found Litton in 1953. He had, he said, persuaded Charles Litton to sell his electronics company to present Litton Chairman Charles ("Tex") Thornton and his associates, had later used his connections to help Litton Industries procure important contracts-in return...
...rosy were things down on the farm, in Orville's view, that he even began to feel perky about his own job, long the bitterest plum in the U.S. Cabinet. Said he in a recent speech at West Point, noting that he would soon begin his fifth year as Secretary: "That tenure, of course, is not a record; yet you don't exactly find five-year Secretaries of Agriculture hanging from trees." Peasants. Perhaps not, but last week the president of the U.S.'s biggest farmer organization, the 1,647,455-member American Farm Bureau Federation...
...committee found President Kasavubu also responsible for handing Lumumba and his colleagues over to Katanga authorities who were obviously "their bitterest enemies...
...first slightly optimistic note in the impasse. No one was yet ready to say that the end to Detroit's longest and bitterest newspaper strike was even in sight but both sides at least were talking...