Word: bitterly
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SWEET CHARITY. The bitter life of a taxi dancer (Gwen Verdon) who is tired of being for hire but can't find a man for forever...
...several House races, where independent peace candidates might take votes from hard-pressed Democratic freshmen such as Michigan's Weston Vivian and New York's Lester Wolff. So far, however, no candidate of either party who ran on an antiwar platform has won. Last week, in a bitter rerun of a contested Democratic primary in a predominantly Jewish and Italian-American district in Manhattan, five-term Congressman Leonard Farbstein, who supports the Administration's Viet Nam policy, won renomination by a bigger margin than in June. In most races, candidates prefer not to raise the Viet...
...first racially mixed criminal jury in local history, the result of a federal court order that Lowndes County, which is 84% Negro, include a reasonable number of Negroes on its venire lists. But the Negroes were carefully screened, and turned out to be, in Flowers' bitter words, "nothing more than Uncle Toms." Despite impressive circumstantial evidence -an FBI ballistics expert testified that the bullet removed from the woman's brain was fired from a revolver owned by Thomas-the verdict was "not guilty." When Judge Thagard asked the Negroes individually whether they had concurred, each looked...
...Rahman Pazhwak of Afghanistan argued that only a nation as powerful as the U.S. could afford to lose face in the interests of peace. Yet why should the U.S. be the only party in the war to make concessions? Foreign Minister Joseph M.A.H. Luns of The Netherlands had the bitter answer: "It is a well-established practice of totalitarian regimes that they declare themselves prepared for negotiations provided that the other side concedes in advance the main point at stake...
...police were bitter at the forced departure of their long-time boss, whose claim to international fame was his order to sic police dogs on Negro demonstrators earlier that year. "When Albert Boutwell was elected mayor," recalls a Boutwell aide, "85 per cent of the police here wouldn't even look at him when he said hello...