They saw Grant as a strong and silent soldier a great leader who had won a long and bitter war.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

By eighteen sixty-three, America's northern states and southern states had been fighting a bitter civil war for two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

The campaign of eighteen eighty-four between Republican Blaine and Democrat Cleveland was one of the most bitter in American political history.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Some experts believe the word for chocolate came from the Aztec word "xocolatl" which in the Nahuatl language means "bitter water."

VOA: special.2010.02.17

While the Whigs made bitter speeches about the failure of the party's legislative program, Tyler worked to improve relations with Britain.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

The protests were especially bitter on the pacific coast where thousands of Chinese immigrants were settling in California.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

It was a bitter defeat. But it made the North recognize the need for a real army one trained and equipped for war.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

Harrison caught a cold, probably from standing so long outside in the bitter weather of inaugural day.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

And this,said the southern declaration, would lead to bitter hostility and war between North and South.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

The public saw the elections as a sign of hope that reasonable people might find a way to settle the bitter dispute over slavery.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

Listen to these lines from "Song of Myself": And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

They did not want to involve the court in this bitter dispute.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

He already was fighting a bitter struggle against rebels in the South.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Many southerners believe,even today, that reconstruction was a bitter time of defeat.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Two years of a bitter, bloody civil war started to show their effects on both the Confederate states of the South and the Union states of the North.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Neither name was friendly. Southern whites had a reason to be bitter.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

He feared it would re-open the bitter, national debate about slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Andrew Johnson soon found himself in a bitter struggle with Congress.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Such a battle was sure to begin a bitter civil war.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

In the far West, one could forget this bitter dispute.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Northern troops attacked Jackson's lines. The fighting was bitter.

VOA: special.2009.09.24